The growing volumes of information and rapidly changing requirements of the professional training of students in higher education institutions make it necessary for students to seek internal reserves to master professional skills. In modern conditions, the process of professional self-organization of students is being updated. This is reflected in the requirements of the new Russian federal state educational standards of higher education in the form of key general competencies. One of them is "the ability to manage your time, build and implement the path of self-development based on the principles of education throughout life." The purpose of the article is to review the experience of developing professional self-organization among students. Professional self-organization can be understood as the process of mobilizing the capacities of the individual to achieve goals. Professional self-organization is a constantly evolving process of internal rationalization of educational activities. The crucial thing in the learning process must belong to the control of the student, since the learning activity is characterized by the active position of the student. The article presents the experience of developing the self-organization competence based on the example of the study of the cycle of general humanistic disciplines. Both individual and group forms of work are used in the training of students, electronic means are involved. To develop independence, students, with the advisory support of a teacher, complete projects, cases, tests, final assignments and other tasks. The training of the competence under consideration allows the future specialist to successfully analyze the task, contributes to rational planning, proper evaluation, timely adjustment and improvement of the process of educational activity and its management.