Until the mid-1980s, higher education in Hungary was, on the one hand, isolated from other social subsystems due to the total lack of autonomy and central regulation of the number of students, and on the other hand, university education was subordinated to the objectives economic in the short term. The need for reforms in the 1980s also reached the field of higher education. Recognizing the crisis, ideas regarding the need to transform higher education emerged in various political (party) and professional workshops, and later at the state level, since the late seventies. Parallel to all this, the student world became spectacularly active in the early eighties (similar to the generation of the sixties). In the first wave of self-organizations, peace movements (the „Dialóg” Peace Movement), „free” universities, professional colleges, dissident colleges and university clubs began their activities. One of the questions of our analysis, to what extent were these independent initiatives and to what extent were the „organic development” of the transition period of the UTM – Communist Youth Union (Kommunista Ifjak Szövetsége- KISZ). In 1985, a new higher education law was voted. In addition to the UTC (KISZ), the law opened the way for alternative self-organization of students in the university student representation system. New student movements were created many times by the former satellite organizations of the state party – Association of Pioneers, Association of Young Communists (KISZ), etc. –, in some cases these organizations partially provided the material-infrastructural and not least personal basis of the developing social organization, they were partially transformed and functioned as student movements. In addition to the continuous loss of role and the emptying of local UTC organizations (KISZ), the characteristic processes of the period 1986–1988 were the local but also national demonstrations of student organizations, all these processes led to the establishment of the National Association of Interests of Higher Education (OFÉSZ). In the spring of 1990, the already formalized national student representative, two events took place that ensured the organization’s external legitimacy and marked a new era in the history of student representation in Hungary.