The relevance of the research is substantiated by social and economic changes that took place after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and which in their turn, generated great demand for educational services, in particular, for economics education. However, the system of modern economics education encounters unavailability to form a personality possessing necessary competences of rational economic behavior in the conditions of global labor market. In this regard, the paper aims to reveal modern problems of economics education and ways of their solution in the conditions of its integration into international educational space. The leading research methods were historical, retrospective, system and structural analysis and synthesis of relevant literature on the issues of educational system modernization in general, and economics education, in particular; that made it possible to identify a contradiction between the available researches considering shortcomings of modern economic education and absence of recommendations and proposals on their elimination. The paper reveals modern problems of economics education in Russia and suggests recommendations on their solution, among which the author specifies the following: social partnership of higher education institutions and real production sector, integration of educational and research activity of higher education institutions of an economic profile, promotion of their grant activity, the unity of natural-science and humanitarian components of future economists’ training, scientific and methodological support of training and professional development of faculty members dealing with economic disciplines. Materials of the paper can be used by governmental authorities in the sphere of education, institutions of supplementary vocational education.