Аннотация:Modern society is characterized by a new stage of its social and economic development, namely “digital economy”, and this paper studies the current issues in the development of modern IT specialists training in the context of the global digitalization of economy. Since Russian universities apply new Federal State Educational Standard of Higher Education (FSES 3++) that has a framework nature and is based on the occupational standards, it becomes reasonable to implement foreign experience into Russian training of IT specialists with due regard to Computing Curricula 2005 (СС2005) ( 2005 ) and the particular nature of a given university. The paper shows the results of a comparative study of bachelor’s degree programs in IT of Russian and EU regional universities: Nizhnevartovsk State University (Russia) and Liepaja University (Latvia). The analysis carried out by experts from academia and the professional community (regional IT employers) reveals how disciplines from the degree programs’ curricula of these universities correlate with the main levels of CC2005 models: organizational issues and information systems, application technologies, software methods and technologies, systems infrastructure, and computer hardware and architecture. To illustrate how the degree programs correspond to the characteristic features of CC2005 models, their graphical views were created. The study proves the proposed research hypothesis that both universities use Software Engineering model (CC2005) in their IT training. Moreover, the results of the study provide some guidelines for degree programs in IT and their improvement.