In this article reviewed the problem of the pedagogical assistance of adaptation of undergraduate students of the university of physical culture; shows the importance of this problem for sports contingent; substantiated the complex of the pedagogical conditions of the assistance of adaptation, includes psychological and pedagogical support of the educational process, realization of interdisciplinary relations and organization of extracurricular activities; describes the diagnostic tools, on the basis of which the studied indices of adaptation (test «Personal differential» (authors : E. F. Bazhin, A. M. Etkind), test of the achievement motivation (modification of this test-questionnaire A. Mehrabyan), methods of diagnostics of socio-psychological adaptation (authors K. Rogers, P. Diamond)); reflected base of research (Ural state university of physical culture); presents empirical data verification and forming experiments confirm the efficiency of the complex of pedagogical conditions.