Business education in the structure of the federal university

World economic crisis demonstrated inability of business education as a whole to react to it promptly and to take upon itself all the arising problems. Lack of a modern top-manager concept corresponding to the existing economic situation, lack of the characteristics of business schools potential audience, inability to provide forward-looking predictive education taking into consideration possibility of crisis development are among the most important reasons for that. All these problems are to be solved in cooperation of business structures, academic science and the system of business education currently undergoing the stage of reforms. The article suggests the ways to solve the above-mentioned problems.