The article considers one of the modern forms of organizational transformations in the system of higher professional education, which is a network cooperation of higher educational institutions. The authors emphasize the importance of network cooperation in the sphere of higher education and training of scientific specialists as a form of regional integration. The authors have analyzed Altai State University’s experience of network cooperation and provided the examples of effective forms of higher educational institutions’ cooperation in the modern world. Universities network cooperation under modern highly competitive conditions allows consolidating development opportunities for universities of different countries, thus repeatedly increasing intellectual resources, personnel resources, resources of infrastructure, thereby to form a large-scale basis for a new breakthrough in the field of knowledge and technology. On the example of creation and participation in international organizations, hosting of international forums there were distinguished the most effective forms and types of educational cooperation. The results of joint activities which were obtained with the help of cooperation of the universities in the framework of the Association make it possible to fit into political and economic integrational activation processes, which we have been obser ving during the recent years within the framework of international associations (CIS, EAEC, SCO, BRICS).