The relevance of the research problem is caused by the modern discourse of students' involvement to the project activity. Moreover, the current labor market requires a high level of graduates' professional competitiveness. Therefore, this article is aimed at the development of optimal scheme of high school specialists' preparation on the basis of project-based learning. The poll conducted among the 2 500 high school students showed 35,9% of respondents are not involved in the project activity. 13,38% of students claim the level of applying of project activity in their university is unsatisfactory. In this case the scheme of project-based learning mechanism implementing was introduced. The practical value is that the submissions may be useful in current university practice regarding students' project activity encouraging.

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