The article summarizes the arguments and counterarguments within the framework of the scientific discussion on the need and expediency of implementing public-private partnership projects in the field of education. The main purpose of the carried out research is to distinguish and analyze the prerequisites along with organizational and economic foundations for the formation of experimental projects of public-private partnership in the educational sphere. The systematization of literary sources and approaches to solving the problem showed that the creation and functioning of higher education institutions on the basis of public-private partnership is a good future alternative to budget-based financing. The relevance of solving this scientific problem lies in the matter that the introduction and implementation of the organizational and economic mechanism of public-private partnership in the field of education justifies the key role of higher education institutions in the development of an innovative economy, since their services are socially important and affect the formation and development of society. The article lists the problems in higher education institutions that will have a positive solution in the implementation of public-private partnership projects; the benefits that the State and the educational institution will receive from the implementation of public-private partnership projects have been singled out and characterized; attention is focused on the instrumentarium and mechanisms for its implementation. The methodological instrumentarium of the carried out research include: methods of scientific abstraction – in the formation of organizational and economic foundations for the implementation of the public-private partnership project in the field of education; method of economic experiment – in determining the mechanisms, instruments and indicators of the implementation of public-private partnership; historical and logical methods – in determining the main problems of the development of the education sector in Ukraine. The object of the research is an experimental form of implementation of the public-private partnership project in the field of education. The results of the research can be useful in solving the problems of financing the education sector in Ukraine.