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Introduction. The upbringing and socialization of modern children and adolescents are increasingly influenced by constant changes in social reality. Research in the field of social pedagogy, which makes it possible to understand what new patterns arise in the relationship between the child and the social environment, is becoming in demand. The academic Master Degree program in social pedagogy is one of the essential factors that allow quickly finding answers to the socio-pedagogical questions posed by time. The problem is that the disparate, particular topics of individual undergraduates should be combining into complex scientific research and the organizational conditions for the effective work of the research teams of undergraduates should be identifying. Methodology and methods of the research. The study was based on a phraseological methodological principle that allows drawing theoretical conclusions about comprehensive studies of undergraduates based on studies of real life, human activity and social relations. The research method is the analysis of the experience of organizing integrated scientific work of undergraduates. Comprehensive scientific research refers to the joint activities of a group of undergraduates aimed at solving the problem with the help of a single methodological and various theoretical approaches that allow comprehensively revealing multifaceted, constantly changing socio-pedagogical phenomena and processes. Distinctive characteristics of complexity are adherence to scientific ethics, authorship of scientific ideas, a constant exchange of information and empirical data and the obligatory external examination. The results of the research. Pilot work on the organization of comprehensive scientific research of undergraduates was due to the appearance of previously non-existing social and pedagogical phenomena, the subjects of which were graduate students themselves. The first such problem was the activity of foster families. The research group included undergraduates with the status of foster parents, and undergraduates of support services for foster families. Analysis of the activities of research groups of undergraduates allowed us to highlight the following conditions for the organization of complex scientific: recruitment into groups of undergraduates not only for the general theme of the program, but also for the general production problem that requires immediate solution; the inclusion in the solution of the research problem of all teachers of specialized programs in order to constantly stimulate the search and exchange of new knowledge; organization of a scientific methodological seminar under the guidance of the head of the master’s program; constant testing of the results of scientific research. Conclusion. Compliance with organizational conditions stimulates the constancy and consistency of the organization of integrated research; holds various research topics within a single research field; intensifies the research process and ensures a constant exchange of information; creates a unified educational research space based on the scientific school of the department.