The faculty of physical training and sports of the Moscow state university of means of communication in September, 2001 has celebrated the 70th anniversary. The social and economic transformations occurring in our country, are reflected in system of physical education of students. The highest education was not prestigious and low-paid during perestroika. Now the highest education is prestigious and significant. Receipt in highest school needs the high level of knowledge. It is possible to achieve it only under the condition of preservation and strengthening of health, i.e. harmonious development of the person. More than 30 years the faculty has an own sports complex with pool. It allows to improve the system of physical education of students to find new forms of occupations, taking into account their interest, specialization in any kind of physical exercises. Such organization of occupations in the greater measure promotes the decision of tasks of this subject in the highest school. The role of physical training in the highest school becomes even more significant in modern conditions. It is necessary to constantly improve it, proceeding from inquiries of time. The organization of the system of physical training of MIIT students as the whole by the principle of specialization with an opportunity of the variation of different kinds of sports and additional occupations is optimum for the solving of the problems put in state standard before sports education.