Introduction. The article examines the moral sphere of technical university students and various aspects of socialization, as well as the development of the personality of undergraduate students from the first to the fourth year. The authors focus on the contradictory and crisis situation in the field of education of young generation in modern Russia and emphasize the need to create a strategy of education at the university taking into account modern conditions. The article looks at the interdependent influence of terminal and instrumental values in the professional self-realization of technical university students with the help of valid and reliable psychodiagnostic methods of personality research. An in-depth statistical analysis reveals the hidden relationship between multiple human values. The authors provide the map of the value landscape of students’ personality and analyze the relevance of the leading values such as active way of life, life wisdom, health, interesting work, beauty of nature and art, love, financially secure life, the presence of good and true friends, public recognition, knowledge, intellectual development, etc. This makes it possible to understand the features of professional self-realization of students. Problem statement. The evaluation of the motivational component of the values under study provides an opportunity to discover the resources of the educational process.Methodology of the study. Grouping of numerous values into certain factors and blocks is aimed at a more detailed study of the main aspects that facilitate the process of self-knowledge and professional self-realization of students of a technical university.Results. The research material makes it possible to detect competing values, as well as contradictions between the declared and real values. Moreover, it helps to find resources and give recommendations on eliminating possible obstacles in professional self-realization, formation and adaptation of a competent specialist to all participants of the educational process.Conclusions. The generalized results can be successfully used in practical work, in particular, in motivational trainings for students at any stage of training and the creation of new technologies in the professional orientation of first-year students. Working with values is supposed to optimize the development of students’ personal potential.

Students’ academic performance has always been the focus of the educational process of the university. The main idea of the proposed study is the unacceptability of lowering the educational process quality while the students are switching from online to offline classes. Actually, with the return of students to the university classrooms after a long quarantine various issues emerged referring to the the educational process that require prompt solutions. The article discusses the process of adaptation of university students after a long quarantine associated with the alternation of distance and classroom learning formats. The material of the study can be extremely relevant for numerous universities, as it allows us to look at the new didactic phenomenon such as distance learning, as well as students’ return to traditional format of education from another point of view. The research conducted by the authors of the article is based on the results of a survey of students of one of the Russian universities.