The importance of the problem of formation of higher agricultural education in the USA is highlighted. It has been proved that globalization, democratization, a single information space have influenced the development of higher agricultural education. The main seven stages of the formation of agrarian higher education are highlighted. It was found that the first one includes the period from 1636 to 1776, when the founding of colleges took place, it was concluded that in the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, higher agricultural education in the USA was subordinated to local authorities; the second stage – the period of experiment, from 1776 to 1862, the correspondence between the training of specialists in agrarian education and the needs of industry are established; the third stage from 1862 to 1900 – proved that with the onset of rapid breakthroughs in the development of the economy there was an urgent need for specialists from specific sectors of the economy, the agricultural sector was no exception; in 1900 – 1950 there is the fourth stage, when there are two-year colleges; From the 1950s to the 1980s, the fifth stage was marked by changes in the US high school in accordance with the requirements of scientific and technological progress; in the sixth stage from 1980 to 2000, it was found that education is inextricably linked with politics; The seventh stage, which dates from 2000 up to now, is characterized by increased requirements for the training of future specialists. The signs of the development of higher agricultural education in the United States are highlighted: high pace of education, the emergence of higher education institutions, increased costs of higher education, assistance to the state in improving the quality of higher education, improvement of curricula, application of forms and methods of training of future specialists in accordance with the requirements of scientific and technological progress, increasing the role of higher agricultural school, etc. The problem of the quality of US education as a matter of state importance and level is considered. It is concluded that strengthening the role of the state government in financing the higher agricultural school becomes the most important moment in the process of formation of higher agricultural education.