Abstract: This study is devoted to the methods and principle of vocational education in higher education. The educational model of higher education is built on certain principles that are the basis. Teaching methods should be analyzed and identified obsolete, weed out them, introduce new, active teaching methods. The new principles of professional education in the university should be modern, meet the requirements of time and society, help students not only to gain professional skills but to become an active participant in training. The innovative methods of teaching described in the study help the university teachers to make the education more interesting and accessible, to increase the students’ interest.