Model for the formation of student groups taking into accountthe competitive selection of applicants

The paper proposes a comprehensive approach to solving the problem of the quality of higher education at the level of the work of the admissions committee of the university: support for the decision-making of the applicant in the process of choosing specialties at the stage of forming the application and the distribution of applicants who have passed the competitive selection and are admitted, according to student study groups, taking into account the level of motivation of those distributed.

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