The process of self-identification of foreign students at the Technical University

In this article we present the empirical base of the study, which consists of data obtained from social surveys of students of the branch of the Ufa State Oil Technical University in Oktyabrsky. The nationality of the respondents was stated according to self-identification of representatives of different nationalities living in the territory of different countries of the near and far abroad. The study involved 114 respondents aged from 17 to 21. The study applied a wide range of methods for collecting and processing empirical information. The authors applied some diagnostic techniques and methods of information collection used in the works of Russian researchers. The questionnaire (social survey) was used to study general demographic information, as well as to study the affective component of the national consciousness of foreign students - a sense of national identity and related emotional experiences.