This article describes a study of academic motivation of students of different groups, as well as the factors of their social-psychological adaptation. As the main hypothesis, it was suggested that between the social-psychological characteristics of students at different levels and the structural elements of their motivation for educational and professional activities there are stable and unique relationships for each group that are non-random in nature. The contingent of subjects consisted of 395 students of Russian universities, studying in humanitarian specialties on the levels of undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate studies. The questionnaire were used in this study to identify features of the academic motivation, as well as methods to determine the social-psychological parameters. The results of the study showed the presence of stable relationships between the social-psychological characteristics of students and the structural components of their academic motivation.
