The article presents the condition of the modern Higher Professional Education in Russia and the world, main tendencies of its development, primarily connected with economic and political aspects of the society’s development, with the adaptation of the educational system to the market relations. It shows that the Higher Professional Education is included into the broader context of socio-cultural life and is not considered to be a narrow sphere of social life any more. The article presents understanding of the educational sphere of the Higher Professional Education as a whole organized field that provides integration of personal values and cultural meanings with values and cultural meanings of the society. The author concludes that in the modern development of the Institution of Higher Education we can see the faster accelerating process of contradictions’ accumulation, stage rebuilding of the educational system goes beyond the scope of the Educational Institution and affects fundamental foundations of the development of the society.