The scientific novelty of the article is that the authors have revealed the average level of the state of formation of communicative competence (CC) of the third-year students. The cognitive and emotional components dominate among all CC components (it can be observed among students of the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Faculty of Arts). The behavioral component of the CC is better formed among students of the Faculty of Foreign Philology and the Faculty of Arts and Graphics. The communicative tolerance prevails among students of the Faculty of Physical Education as well as the Faculty of Arts and Graphics. Moreover, the two factors influencing CC were revealed: the external factors (organization of students` subject leisure; professional-oriented educational work with students; content of education at institutions of higher pedagogical education: specialty of the chosen profession, increased cycle of humanities and psychological and pedagogical disciplines, active pedagogical practice of students; age of students to work with, different categories of children and adults to communicate with, pedagogical skills and CC of teachers); the internal factors (students' attitude towards self-development, self-education, students' life and social experience, motivation for acquiring a specialty and CC, humanistic orientation of future teacher's personality, persona's orientation to "person-person" profession).