The state of the issue: The current type of environmental consciousness determines the behavior of people in relation to the environment. Environmental education is a part of the integral pedagogical process of any educational institution, aimed at the systematic knowledge assimilation about the environment, society, development of practical skills and environmental activities. Environmental education is aimed at the formation of environmental culture of the individual to protect the environment. Material and Methods: The main method of research is testing, which promotes the study of environmental consciousness development level and its structural components among the students. Also in the process of research were used: methods of research and regulatory sources; sociopsychological diagnostics, psycho-diagnostic techniques; mathematical methods and methods of computer data processing. Results: The authors identified and justified the structural and content characteristics of environmental consciousness. The data obtained during the study of the structural components of the student environmental consciousness are compared. Individual ecological consciousness is understood by the authors as a relatively stable integral mental education of the subject, which is formed in the process of environmental training, characterized by the level of environmental knowledge, attitudes, relations to nature, intentions that determine a holistic environmentally-oriented behavior aimed at protecting the environment. Conclusions: The effective formation of ecological consciousness, in accordance with the requirements of modern society, can be when there is a designed diagnostic toolkit that allows monitoring at each stage of ecological consciousness formation. In the structure of individual ecological consciousness four structural components can be allocated: cognitive, valuablemotivational orientation, cognitive.