Introduction. Trust is becoming one of the serious problems of university education, both in terms of the quality of education itself and in terms of the quality of knowledge, skills and competences that students and graduates acquire. Based on the level of perceived trust, students decide how strong and persistent their pro-social motivation will be, i.e. their perception of fairness and helpfulness and, above all, the extent to which students will be willing to apply these attributes towards others. Purpose and methods. With the use of analysis, synthesis, comparison, abstraction, generalization, induction, deduction, modeling, etc., the purpose of the paper is to study trust of higher education students closely related to the topic of fair and helping behavior. All of these three phenomena are investigated from both perspectives: passive (in situations when they are received by a student from other entities) and active (in