UNIVERSITY IN " KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY"

The article studies peculiarities of development of modern university system of production and spreading of knowledge. There is given comparative analysis of historic types of university: prior to classical (Medieval Ages), classical 'Gumboltd's' ( New Age) and post classical university (XX- early XXI century). There is enlightened a tendency to bifurcation of post classical university into mass and elite university with a perspective of turning both of them into a capitalistic enterprise.