Political science has been taught in universities in modern Russia for thirty years. Today, due to the complication of the political situation in the world and in Russia, some universities are criticized for teaching the wrong thing and in the wrong way. A number of universities, taking advantage of some freedom in the formation of curricula, are trying to remove political science from them. The authors, relying on the experience of teaching at the university, analyzed the content of programs, methodological documents, forms of control of students’ independent work, and showed what is the complexity of teaching this discipline at a university today, what and how it is necessary to improve. The authors conclude that today political science is needed in universities even more than in the 1990s .. when modern Russia was just being created, and the discipline was just being introduced into the public education system. The theoretical part of the course, which now prevails, must be promptly supplemented with a deeper analysis of the political life of modern Russia, which will ensure the training of specialists with relevant competencies in a state university.