In article questions of the centers of social tension in the student's environment are considered. As one of such centers the size and structure of a payment for accommodation in hostels of the educational organizations of the higher education acts. On tasks of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation a number of monitorings of cost of hostels is carried out, the comparative analysis is made, the received results are analysed, the corresponding conclusions are drawn.

Keywords: social tension, monitoring, accommodation cost in the hostel, the educational organization, the higher education