The article deals with the research in the development of information competency of university students and project-based learning. The research methods are a review of current research on students' projectbased learning and development of their information competency, modeling and extrapolation. It is noted that the educational results of project-based learning of students are media-education projects as research and innovative projects to solve educational problems and learning objectives, affecting the quantitative and qualitative changes in the development of students' professional competency, including information competency, and self-development. The authors of the study emphasize that media education projects promote personal development with the help and through the content of social media and digital technologies, to develop information literacy in dealing with appropriate digital resources, project literacy, teaching various means of self-expression through digital tools. The teaching conditions of developing students' information competency as a transprofessional competency within the promotion of project-based learning in higher education and mastering academic skills by students in the form of media-education projects are also outlined. The paper describes the pedagogical experience of promoting the project-based learning system in a higher education institution and implementing pedagogical conditions of students' information competency development through the preparation of media education projects.