Health status of students at higher educational institutions draws attention of specialists in different fields of medicine. Comparison of mental health of different population groups determined that this issue is especially urgent concerning students. Objective of the study was investigation of peculiarities of nonpsychotic mental disorders (NPMD) among students depending on the specialty they learn, the year of studies, and sex. In the period from 2015 to 2017 a comprehensive examination including 1235 students was conducted keeping to the principles of bioethics and deontology. The following methods were applied: clinical, clinical-psychopathologic, clinical-epidemiologic, clinical-anamnestic, experimental-psychological and statistical. The study resulted in the following findings: 317 students out of 1235 of all the examined individuals were diagnosed with NPMD (25.67 %). In a gender aspect NPMD was found among 97 (30.60 %) males and 220 (69.40 %) females. The highest susceptibility to the development of NPMD was found among students on specialties “Pediatrics” and “Medical Psychology” — 48.48 %, and the lowest one — among the students of philosophic-theological faculty — 9.68 %. Firstyear and fifth-year students appeared to be the most susceptible to the development of NPMD. The results obtained should be considered in programming the system of preventive measures in order to timely find and treat the above disorders. Keyword.