Students’ values transformation within higher education

The article presents the research results of students’ values-based orientations at Surgut State University in the period of 2022–2024. The aim of the work is to identify changes in the hierarchy of students’ values at different stages of education. Quantitative and qualitative analysis of questionnaire data visualized as diagrams is used. The tendencies of shifting priorities from material to existential values are established, age and gender differences are recorded. Based on the results, the necessity of forming programs that promote conscious values-based self-determination among university students is substantiated.