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Introduction. At the present stage of development of Mongolian society, the concept of «youth» has somewhat transformed, which is connected with taking into account some social and psychological characteristics, in addition to biological ones, due to which, in a number of normative documents, the youth period has been extended to 35 years. The paper presents a brief review of the results of basic research on the socio-psychological characteristics of Mongolian youth as a socio-demographic group, and also reveals the psychosocial characteristics of the student youth. Methodology and methods of research. The methodological basis of the study was the provisions of G. Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligence, Costa and McCrae’s five-factor model of the personality, and T. Leary’s model of interpersonal relations. The results of the research. The study was conducted in three stages. At the first stage, the method of diagnosing interpersonal relations was used. It was developed by T. Leary, with the help of which we identified separate components of interpersonal relations of students. According to the research, two types of interpersonal relations dominate, such as «friendliness» and «striving for leadership», moreover, in the authoritarian aspect. It should be noted that the expressed average estimates of interpersonal relations of young people are within the normative values. At the second stage of the study, G. Gardner’s multiple intelligence test, which included 40 statements, was used to study the intellectual characteristics of students. According to the results of the study, the average assessment of existential abilities (love, beauty, the divine) in young people is determined by the highest indicator (15,9), and the indicator of musical intelligence is obtained at the lowest level (13). At the third stage of the study, a variant of the Big Five questionnaire was used to study the personality traits of students. Personality traits of the Big Five are defined at the middle level. The lowest indicators have an openness to new experience and trusting relationships with other people, good faith (53,3%), extroversion expresses maximum indicators (interest in an external object - 26,7 %). The level of intelligence development is expressed in average values. Conclusion. Based on the data obtained, it is assumed that the number of extrovert students and conscientious individuals has an overwhelming percentage. It can be assumed that such personality traits will contribute to the growth of academic performance. Based on the research results, a general portrait of a young person was revealed, which includes the following features: extroversion, distrust, values of love and beauty. Based on the main results of this work, further research is required to study the correlation relationships between personal peculiar factors and develop recommendations for teachers on how to conduct learning activities among students with various socio-psychological characteristics.