Abstract. This article talks about the pedagogical and psychological adaptability of students of higher education institutions to higher education. In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in scientific literature on the problems of social and psychological adaptation of students to university conditions. At the same time, the issues related to determining the intensity of adaptive stress and the factors determining the progress and results of the adaptation process have not been resolved. Higher education institutions are a micro-environment in which a young person can pass from the dependent life of a child to an independent adult without irreversible negative processes and personal deformations. In the content of the article, this problem is discussed in detail, the scientific opinions of foreign and Uzbek scientists are presented and analyzed.