Anomie means destabilization of social values which causes instability of social patterns. It is mainly manifested as an increase of the degree of public mistrust towards certain social elements which weakens social efficiency.The goal of this study was to check the degree of institutional (mis)trust among target group of students of the University of Rijeka. The assumption was that low degree of institutional trust initiates the presence of anomie in the society. Besides the questioning about the degree of (mis)trust in institutions, we analyzed personal trust, religiosity, politicalness and sociodemographic characteristics of the respondents, which served as measuring instruments in a process of finding correlation among related variables in six formed hypothesis about influence of specific characteristics on expression of institutional (mis)trust. In conclusion, the degree of (mis)trust varies from institution to institution while respondents show the preference for neutral expression of trust (3=I neither have nor have the trust in institutions) which initiates presence of anomie in the society. In this research we have proved three from total six hypothesis as well as showed the influence of differences in religiosity, politicalness and personal characteristics of respondents on expression of (mis)trust in specific institutions. There was no significant correlation found in the differences in sociodemographic characteristics.