The imbalance associated with the dominance of supply over demand in the market of educational services, excess demand for certain specialties and its absence in others has a negative impact and worsens the staffing of government agencies and the economy of Ukraine as a whole. This is the motive for retrospective analysis of the experience of staffing by state order of the economy, mechanisms and structures that carry out individual processes at different stages from order formation to the distribution of specialists for the formation of modern educational policy. The factors influencing the orders of specialists, such as demography, the structure of economic sectors, priorities of economic development, deindustrialization of the economy, etc. are analyzed.

The results of retrospective analysis of the system of training and placement of personnel with higher education for a period of more than 100 years, the need to develop long-term (at least 6-7 years) state policy and prioritize the training of specialists with higher education by state order. Tasks and measures have been identified, the solution of which will allow to create a regular approach to the mechanism of formation of the state order in the training of specialists with higher education and the influential levers of its management. The lost elements of the structure are given, which do not allow the existing system of staffing by the state order to function effectively.

It is proved that state regulation of higher education should be carried out exclusively in accordance with state priorities, prospects of national economy and its branches, in accordance with modern conditions on the basis of the European educational space, as well as based on forecasting, planning needs, assessing demographic and economic situation.

The conducted retrospective analysis allows to determine the need for long-term state policy and to determine priorities in the training of qualified specialists with higher education by state order.