The article considers the phenomenon of self-organization and academic engagement of university students. The study aims at identifying the nature of interrelation of selforganization as the highest level of self-regulation, academic engagement and a number of specific regulation processes and personality attributes. The study revealed that students with a high level of self-organization show a more developed engagement into an activity, metacognitive engagement, self-efficacy and systemic reflection; academic self-motivation proves to dominate. Students’ engagement with educational and training activities has positive correlations with self-regulation, meta-cognitive involvement, self-efficacy, systemic reflection and quasi-reflection. Forward and backward linkages between engagement and particular components of academic engagement have been observed.