Summary: The article analyzes the legal definitions and positions of contemporary domestic and foreign researchers on the distinction between nostrification, recognition, equivalence. The classification procedures for recognition of education degrees similarity criterion requirements have formulated. The focus has been defined the role and characteristics of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine in cooperation with universities as part of the recognition procedures.
Key words: recognition procedures, nostrification, equivalence of documents on education, the terms, decentralization.
