The article provides a look into the concept of responsibility, defines the meaning of professional responsibility, affirms its importance for the students of physical training and sports. To acknowledge the development of the students’ professional responsibility during university study, an expert survey was conducted; the experts were offered a questionnaire, compiled specifically to put together a set of professional qualities that characterize a specialist in the field of physical training and sports. Professional responsibility was identified by the experts as one of these qualities. Recommendations in favor of teaching professional responsibility as an imperative quality of a specialist were suggested.
