The article considers the problem of the psychological safety development of students in the modern multicultural educational space of the university. It is shown that psychological safety is an important determining factor of the successful socialization for young people. The paper focuses on the idea that the need to create and implement in practice higher education a productive model of multicultural interaction and mutual influence among students as the most dynamic group of contemporary social activity is being actualized.Within the multicultural space of the university, as a socio-psychological, educational and vocational environment, there is an exchange of products of design, club, volunteer and research activities, experience of entering into various social communities, information, translation of professional competencies is carried out, updated and a complex of sociogenic needs is being met, settings and standards are being formed, moral standards governing the relationship of education subjects, representatives of different ethnic groups.