Socio-educational support in the process of education modernization should exhibit humanitarian nature, flexibility, non-violent and “non-intrusive” character of the educational process that can directly relate to the needs and interests of its members. The heightening attention to every member of the educational process marks the idea of socio-educational support of the specialist’s professional development top-priority. In this regard we have identified and described the content of the socio-educational support of a future specialist professional development in higher school that involves creating favorable conditions for personal development, social self-determination and professional establishment of the subjects of education in particular organizational and pedagogical forms, as well as successful possessing necessary competencies in the process of teachers’ and students’ interaction. The submissions of the article can be valuable for the higher-education teaching personnel and advisors in the educational institutions of both higher and secondary professional education.