As a result of Russia's entry into the Bologna process, the development of international cooperation, new areas of work with students and educational technologies takes place. One of these areas is increasing the activity of students in exercising their academic rights, which determines the competitiveness of a future specialist in the labor market, the quality of future professional activities, and the ability to independently make professional choices and bear responsibility for them. This area is of particular importance in training specialists for the tourism and service industry, since a specialist who knows how to exercise and protect his/her academic rights will be able to observe and protect the rights of consumers of tourism services. In universities of developed foreign countries, the academic rights of students are regulated in detail at the state and university levels. Students themselves are also active in the protection of their academic rights. In Russia, the academic rights of students are not detailed both at the federal and local levels. There is a contradiction between the students having a number of academic rights and their insufficient implementation. The article presents the results of an analysis of the practice of implementing the academic rights of students in Russian universities. The study showed that many students do not know their academic rights, as well as related legal norms and documents. This results in the low activity of students in their implementation. The study also revealed a lack of competence among individual administrative employees of universities in the regulation of students' academic rights. Based on the results of the experiment, the main directions of improving the students' inplementation of their academic rights are determined. Key words-students' academic rights, implementation of academic rights, students of tourism studies. I. The purpose of the study is to analyze the implementation of the academic rights by students, identify existing problems, and determine how to solve them. Research hypothesis: students of Russian universities do not know enough and exercise their academic rights during