What options were there if you wanted to continue studying after school? How accessible were higher education institutions to the average citizen? How would things like funding work?
Like say you were really good at Physics in school, would you have a realistic chance of being able to get a Physics degree for example?
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I was good in math and physics at our rural school. Got some additional self education. Wanted to become a ‘computer guy’. Went to Moscow to apply to a leading profile university. Wrote exams. It was like 2-5 applicants on a place. I went through. No money was spent, except transportation. I lived for free in the campus. I even received scholarship enough to feed myself, buy clothes, etc. It was common for 70-80% of the students. We were promised to be hired on the local electronic plants. But USSR collapsed so I never worked the profession I was taught.
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