Abstract: The article examines the history and economic directions of the leading international, national and profile assessment systems to improve the work on assessment systems in higher education institutions in the Republic of Azerbaijan. Parameters are defined to ensure compatibility in each direction. Requirements have been developed for high quality and frequency of citations of pedagogical / academic staff, payment processing and quality indicators in the labor market, reputation of equipment in the labor market, leadership in scientific research, increasing the value of research. The study of the work on the systematization of rankings, assessment, substantiation of the essence of the concepts by conducting theoretical generalizations, is one of the means of improving the quality of higher education. The forthcoming tasks for the higher education system in the Republic of Azerbaijan, the formation and improvement of scientifically based methodology, taking into account the current state of higher education, the problem of determining the achievements of world experience in assessing and building the quality of higher education are solved and analyzed at the pedagogical level.