Today, the issue of emotional intelligence of Ukrainians is particularly important, especially the problem of developing the emotional intelligence of future teachers. Teachers will prepare students to withstand any emotional stress in the future, so they need to have a high level of emotional intelligence themselves. In the study, we first tested future teachers’ understanding of emotional intelligence and later applied strategies to develop each component of the studied concept in future teachers. The following components of emotional intelligence of future teachers were considered in the research: self-awareness, self-regulation, social awareness, social skills. We used several techniques to improve each of the components of emotional intelligence of university students. Three levels of emotional intelligence were defined: high, average and low. In order to determine the levels of emotional intelligence development, we used the method of D. Mayer, P. Selovey and D. Caruso - MSCEIT, V2.0. The final stage of the study was to test the effectiveness of the proposed strategies in developing emotional intelligence in university students by means of the Mann-Whitney U-test. The results show that the strategies used are effective.