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The article discusses the functioning of higher education in Russia in the institutional aspect. It is noted that in some studies on this subject there is shown a tendency of non-distinction of the technical and technological approaches, the applied aspects of the educational activities and its content-related, essential foundations. On the background of changes in higher education, acting in response to the challenges of civilization, it becomes increasingly relevant to model the social processes, allowing to identify the integrative principles and to describe the system of connections, which characterizes the interaction of education and the progress of the society. An essential feature of contemporary Russian society is its multi-structural character, which needs to be understood in the educational aspect. With the help of the structural-functional approach, there is studied the phenomenon of the Russian students.