Introduction. Recently, both abroad and in our country, there has been a significant increase in interest in anxiety, emotional tension and stress. Although many studies of the above problems have been carried out, the specificity of the stress of certain popula-tion groups has not been sufficiently studied. The article is devoted to the study of stress manifestations in students of different spe-cialties and directions. Stress related to emotional phenomena of the psyche, signals about tense, possibly, conflict situations in the development of the personality, which are reflected in the form of certain manifestation in activities in general and in educational activities, in particular. The research hypothesis is based on the assumption that the features of stress development depend both on the characteristics of the individual and on the characteristics of the social situation of development (learning activity). The purpose of the study is to examine the peculiarities of stress manifestation in the student age. Materials and methods. To achieve this goal, both empirical and statistical methods of data analysis were used. The study sample consisted of 60 students of higher educational institutions of Yoshkar-Ola, of different specialties and directions. Results of the study, discussion. Qualitative and quantitative analysis of group profiles allowed to state the presence of statistically significant difference(p< 0,01) in the peculiari-ties of stress manifestation in students of the humanities and natural sciences. It is noted that stress is manifested mainly at the psychological level, but biological signs of stress manifestation in most students are present in small quantities. Thus, analysis of the results showed that there were no significant differences in the description of the causes of stress among the students, but differences in its manifestations and in the methods of stress relief, depending on the profile of the faculty, were revealed. Conclusion. Thus, data indicating that the main reasons of stress among students are: inability to properly manage limited finances, to properly organize their daily routine and fear of the future were obtained, and stress manifests in sensitivity, inability to get rid of extraneous thoughts, bad sleep and a sense of constant lack of time.