Formation and development of innovative educational system of professional personnel training in the world countries was carried out according to various scenarios and at different times. However, the direction of reforms in each country was the same - increasing the country's competitiveness, improving the innovative "breakthrough". At the same time, the analysis of innovative economies of foreign countries and the features of the formation of innovative educational systems (IES) shows that there are no unified approaches and mechanisms in the formation and development of IES. The study of the experience of the leading countries reforming professional education, as well as the experience of reforming Russian education, made it possible to single out the following models of structural elements of the innovative educational system: 1. Classical (traditional) university. 2. Research university. 3. National research university. 4. Federal university. 5. University of enterprise type. 6. Project-oriented university. The article examines the experience of several countries in the development of innovative educational systems, as well as a comparative analysis of each type of university as a structural element of the Russian national IES. The development of Russia's innovative educational system at the present stage has created the conditions for implementing the structural adjustment of the system. The tasks of the immediate future are the modernization of the elements of the IES, the formation of links and relations at the level of a single element and its subsequent integration into an innovative educational space.