Analysis and Modeling of Structural Changes in Ukrainian Higher Educational System

The article is devoted to the analysis and forecasting of trends in the structure of higher education institutions in accordance with changing trends in educational and demographic processes. It has been proven that higher education acts as a trigger for human development and faces serious challenges that require optimization of both educational processes and effective structural changes. The article defines the prerequisites for the need to optimize the number of HEI’s of Ukraine, and an algorithmic research model is proposed. At the model level, the importance of the contribution of higher education to the economic development of the country has been proven, the existence of a gap between the number of HEI’s and the needs of the market of higher education applicants has been determined, and two scenarios of the behavior of Ukrainian HES have been developed.