The purpose of the research is the study of the social representation of corruption of students in higher educational institution. This allows to estimate awareness of students about the problem of corruption behavior and their willingness to participate in the anti-corruption events. The article gives description of Russian psychology of corruption and prospects for studies on the social representation for anti-corruption policy. A correlation between the social representation of corruption of student and their sex, age, subjective income level and the needs according to McClelland's theory is analyzed. The multiple-factor questionnaire “Attitude toward corruption” by O.S. Deyneka and the questionnaire “The diagnostics motivators of social-psychological activity of person” according to McClelland's theory adapted by N.P Fetiskin, V.V. Kozlov, G.M. Manuilov were used for research. The data were processed with coefficient of correlation of Spearman.