Keyword: «master's degree program»

The article analyzes the current state of the master's degree program education. The master's degree program is positioned today as “supra-professional” education, but its role remains uncertain. On the one hand, the master's degree program allows students to focus on the development of scientific research, on the other hand, it serves as a continuation of professional education, focused on the practical activities of graduates. The legal background of the master's degree program education is vague and permanently changing. This creates difficulties for master's degree program development strategy in each higher education institution. The purpose of this article is to show the problems of the pedagogical design of the master's education at the university and the ways to solve them. The author analyzes the conceptual apparatus of pedagogical design, this object is considered as a continuous process, divided into stages. The target object is the perfect project of master's degree program. The systemic and subject-activity oriented approaches are the methodological basis of the research. The results of the article were the conclusions that the master's degree program as an object of pedagogical design can be a scientifically oriented structure that trains highly qualified specialists. A variant of such a design may be the creation of a kind of “end-to-end” master's degree program, in which all the resources necessary for the purposeful preparation of masters as representatives of “supra-professional” specialization are concentrated. Pedagogical design of master's degree program education in each specific university is based on an analysis of the external and internal environment. The external environment is determined by the region as a specific socio-cultural and economic space. The internal environment is determined by the quality of the subject potential of students and academic staff of the university. The theoretical significance of the study consists in the possibility of using the designated aspects of pedagogical design in the creation of the proper educational environment for master’s degree program implementation. The practical significance lies in the focus of the pedagogical design on increasing the effectiveness of master's education.