July 25, 2025
Research team led by VIDA Center's Prof. Julia Stoyanovich reveals 78,000 Ukrainian students directly impacted by Russian war
News2025-07-25
Study shows 16% of graduating high school seniors displaced, with rural male students hit hardest by 'intersectional disadvantage.’
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has displaced approximately 36,500 graduating high school students — 16% of the country's 2022 senior class — while causing an additional 41,500 students to abandon the traditional pathway to higher education entirely, according to a new study published in Nature's Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.
The research, conducted by a multi-disciplinary team based in the United States and Ukraine and led by Julia Stoyanovich — Director of NYU's Center for Responsible AI, Institute Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering, and Associate Professor of Data Science at the NYU Center for Data Science — shows that at least 78,000 students (34% of all graduating high school seniors) were directly impacted by the war in 2022.
The research, conducted by a multi-disciplinary team based in the United States and Ukraine and led by Julia Stoyanovich — Director of NYU's Center for Responsible AI, Institute Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering, and Associate Professor of Data Science at the NYU Center for Data Science — shows that at least 78,000 students (34% of all graduating high school seniors) were directly impacted by the war in 2022.