The paper deals with the role of professional experience in training military specialists to work in modern conditions, associated with the emergence and development of crisis situations that permeate virtually all spheres of society. It is obvious that the existence of any state is unthinkable without professionally trained, qualified and experienced defenders. This increases interest in the development of professional experience of officers as an important component of the readiness for effective action of anti-crisis orientation. The paper shows methodological approaches to the study of the process of military university masters experience development. The author proposes a definition of a military specialist professional readiness on the basis of scientific works analysis. The author also considers distinctive features of the officers professional experience development. The author defines the main ways of professional experience development in crisis situations for military university undergraduates. They combine theory with practice and research activities, the use of international experience and experience of veterans of wars and military conflicts, pedagogical support of students with the value content of education, differentiation of training with a special position of the teaching staff, with special attention to military university students professional experience development.