Global University Entrepreneurial Spirit Students' Survey (GUESSS)

The presented GUESSS-Russia national report is a multifaceted inquiry into entrepreneurial potential of Russian university students. It pays special attention to the coverage of their career preferences, attitudes towards entrepreneurship, assessment of university and national environment, influence of family on the development of entrepreneurial intentions, characteristics of active entrepreneurship.
Based on a survey of more than 1,600 students from universities across Russia, the following trends were identified:

• Right after graduation, 53.4% of students see the start of their career paths as employees, while almost 22.7% of students see it as entrepreneurs.
• About 44.9% of students want to become entrepreneurs five years after the graduation, which is almost 16.8% more than in the international sample.
• In Russia, the share of potential entrepreneurs (i.e. those who are already trying to start their own business) among students is 19.1%. 
• The share of active entrepreneurs (i.e. those who are already running their own business) reaches 3.7%, which is lower than in the international sample.
• About 44,1% of Russian students had no entrepreneurship courses at all, which is higher than the share in the international sample – 57,6%.
• Approximately 33.2% of the survey participants in Russia said that at least one of their parents is an entrepreneur (the figure for the international sample was about 31.0%).
• The overall index of intentions to become a successor (“readiness”) was higher among Russian students, reaching 3.4 out of 7, compared with 3.0 in the international sample. 

Russian Report 2025 contains important results on various aspects of student entrepreneurship development and provides a comparison with the international sample, which will be of interest to a wide range of readers.