The research presented in the communication aimed to identify the relationship between the social and academic adaptation of international students and the social distance with other entice groups. Two research methods were used: Bogardus social distances scale and the Student Environment Adaptation Questionnaire and academic requests (AMSSA Questionnaire on Adaptation to Student Environment and Academic Requests (ASEAR), a method constructed by Svetlana Rusnac and Ludmila Zmuncila Methods were applied to a sample of 359 students from all three years of study, half - representatives of the host country Republic of Moldova, half - international students from Israel, Congo, China, Korea, Romania, Ukraine, Turkey. Through statistical calculations and quantitative-qualitative analysis of the results, the tendency to change the social distances was identified as the level of adaptation of international students increased, the differences between the adaptation of the students from the host country and the international students, the influence of the culture of belonging on the adaptability and distance With general clause: in the international student environment social distances compared to the representatives of other cultures are favorable, changing with the social and academic adaptation of young people.