The main instrument providing the quality of higher education institutions (HEIs) in Russia is the procedure of state accreditation which is carried out by a public authority–the Federal Service of Supervision in Education and Science. The used indicators don't take into account the requirements of professional standards, the requirements of labor market to the graduates, and employers and students are not involved in the procedures of state accreditation.

In Russia some organizations are engaged in specialized accreditation of engineering and legal programs, and some organizations carry out accreditation of educational programs without regard to the profile of education. But there has not been yet established any agency at the federal level aimed at providing the accreditation of agricultural programs. In Russia more than 100 higher education institutions realize the programs relating to this profile, half of them–specialized ones (agricultural universities, academies and institutes), others—realize the programs for a wide range of training. According to the Federal Databank Of State Accreditation there are 1525 agricultural programs realized at these HEIs: