Analysis of foreign experience of internationalization of higher education: opportunities for the Russian universities

The article deals with the transformation of the concept of internationalization of higher education in the modern conditions. There is presented the multidimensionality of the phenomenon including the political, economic, social and pedagogical aspects. There is revealed the potential of the foreign experience of the internationalization of education in the transformation of the Russian universities based on the balance of the international and national interests with the purpose of the strengthening of the competitive abilities of the Russian education in the world.