The article deals with the comparative and pedagogical analysis of organization of professional study of specialists in physical education and sports in the system of higher education in the United States of America, and to substantiate a possibility of creative use of the ideas of American experience in modernisation process of preparation of sports and physical culture specialists in Ukraine. 184 instructors of Ukrainian higher education establishments were interviewed in order to determine perspective directions of implementation of American experience of professional preparation of specialists in physical education and sports in Ukraine. Survey on modernization of professional study of specialists in physical education and sports was based on practicability of implementation of American experience received in the universities of the USA. The qualifying experiment determined Ukrainian higher education