The article is devoted to the urgent problem of the formation of students’ social competence while receiving additional vocational education. The study highlights the specifics of the examination of this phenomenon in modern science and the significance of the development of students’ social competence. The article also emphasizes the fact that the development of the given asset is especially effective within the training activity in addition to the traditional educational environment of a university, in particular, in the context of the various forms of additional vocational education. The research is aimed at studying the specifics of the formation of students’ social competence while receiving additional vocational education. To achieve the goal of the research, an experiment aimed at studying the state and dynamics of students’ social competence was developed and carried out....