The article gives in detail description of educational reforms at the level of modern requirements and raising its quality to the high level of modern demands, and national and foreign experience in training highly qualified personnel also specified. The article also shows the main features that determine the quality of the educational process in training highly qualified personnel and the rules that form the basis of the concept of a quality system in higher education. The article analyzes the role, content, essence, systems, and tasks of social management in improving the quality of education, a systematic approach to the social management of higher education, and the theoretical and methodological basis of social mechanisms for the education quality improvement.