Abstract: This article examines the professional goal setting of the students of technical higher education institutions, its concept, and problem of establishment. The object of this research is the professional goal setting, while the subject is the assessment of professional goal setting among students, as well as problem of its formation during in training of the nuclear scientists. Goal setting allows tracing the impact of conscious personal values upon the sustainable motivation of his activity, and manifests as a regulator of the professional self-consciousness that is expressed in readiness for the competent and responsible actions. The authors provide the research materials pertaining to assessment of the goal setting among the nuclear physics students. As one of the main conditions of formation of the professional goal setting, is suggests its organization based on realization of the process of personal and professional growth. The article underlines the need for encouraging the professional motivation and timely adjustment towards the changes in educational space of professors and educators composition, because it is namely them who form the understanding of importance of the safety culture among students, as well as ensure the processes of quality transformation of professional expectations and goal setting.