Object of research: the process of state management of the internationalization of higher education. Purpose: substantiation of theoretical, methodological and applied provisions for improving the mechanisms of public administration for the internationalization of higher education in Ukraine. Methods: system analysis; deduction and induction; comparative analysis; structural and functional; structural and logical analysis; economic and statistical; organizational design; analysis and synthesis, simulation. Results: an urgent scientific task was solved to substantiate theoretical, methodological and applied provisions for improving the mechanisms of state management of the internationalization of higher education in Ukraine. Novelty: the author's generalized innovative model of public administration for the internationalization of higher education in the context of the digitalization of society and modern challenges has been developed and substantiated; a scientifically grounded systematic approach to the formation of strategic directions for the sustainable development of the internationalization of higher education and a complex modified mechanism of public administration of this process is proposed; improved scientific and practical approaches to the formation of an integrated mechanism of public administration of education, depending on the functional needs of public administration bodies for organizational, legal, managerial, financial and economic, information, analytical, control and political support; meaningful filling of the descriptive model of the functioning of the complex modified mechanism of public administration as a complex system; were further developed: the conceptual and categorical apparatus, in particular, the author's definition of the concepts "a complex modified mechanism of state management of the internationalization of higher education", "internationalization of higher education", "state management of the internationalization of higher education" was proposed in the context of the subject of the research; scientific and theoretical provisions on the formation of the methodology of scientific research in the field of education, including the internationalization of higher education, in three main blocks: basic, methodological and effective; scientific and practical approaches to assessing the development trends of the process of internationalization of higher education in foreign countries. Introduced into the activity: State Enterprise "Ukrainian State Center for International Education" of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, Honorary Consulate of the Federal Republic of Brazil in Ukraine, Dnipro City Council, University of Customs and Finance. Fields of application: state administration bodies, local authorities and self-government bodies, public organizations.
