The article publishes the results of an experimental study aimed at improving the efficiency of the process of upbringing of social activism of students of modern universities, using the example of FSBEI HE “Kaluga State University named after K. E. Tsiolkovski” (KSU), Kaluga Branch of the Russian State Agrarian University — Moscow Agricultural Academy K. A. Timiryazev, Kaluga branch of the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation.