Sadritska S. Quality of university education: factors and mechanisms of actualization.

Object: the quality of university education. Purpose: the conceptualization of the phenomenon of the quality of university education, identifying factors and mechanisms for updating of the quality of university education in modern Ukraine. Methods: Methods of the analysis and synthesis, logic synthesis, typology, the modeling method and the comparative method, used both quantitative and qualitative methods for sociological data, correlation and comparative analysis, ranking. Theoretical and practical results: a comprehensive sociological analysis of the phenomenon of the educational quality was implemented; the descriptive model of the quality of university education was developed and justified, categorical device of the educational sociology was improved in the interpretation of the concepts of "educational quality", "modern university", "evaluation of the educational quality ", an estimation and indicators of the quality of university education was developed by the author's method to measure educational quality. Degree of implementation: the results of the dissertation research were included in the reports of the research topics of Sociology Department and Applied Sociology Department of Sociological faculty and the Research Institute of Social and Humanities Research of the V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University.