This article reveals the specifics of educational system under digital economy conditions. The core concepts of digital economy, information and communication technologies and the result of their pedagogical implementation are considered. It is defined that the active use of information and communication technologies within pedagogical process is one of the conditions for the formation of a harmoniously developed person. The self-assessment experience in determination of Ogarev Mordovia State University maturity level within the introduction and use of educational technologies is described. At the current stage of the development of the society and social relations the humanity has moved into a new phase which is commonly referred to as the era of digitization. It supposes that human activity is connected with the creation, revision and use of information and some kind of knowledge in digital form. Digital economy takes the main place in all the spheres of social life and has a significant impact on it. The digitization of the economic system is the main direction of the state, economy and social relations' development, and digital economy is a breakthrough technology in the system of constant social development [8]. The current industrial revolution supposes the formation of a new type of industry, implying a fundamental change of vocational and, first of all, higher education [7]. Nowadays, the world educational system is prone to structural changes that lay in the active introduction of electronic facilities and forms of e-learning. The distributed knowledge is becoming more accessible almost in all parts of the world with the help of actively developing educational platforms. Such changes are currently realizing in the leading foreign universities and they can be classified in the following way

digital economy; higher education institution; quality of engineering education; information and communications technology (ICT).