In sociology literature, social apathy is often defined as a pathological phenomenon, social disease, a hindrance to cooperation and development and the effect of urbanization in the modern era. All the development programms development, either in regional or national level, is impossible without the active participation of trained, academic and efficient personnel. The aim of this study is to identify the factors affecting social apathy among the young people. This is a survey study and is done in university of Mohagheghardabili with 369 samples. The results showed that there was a significant relationship between age, education and socioeconomic variables with social apathy. Also, we observed significant covariate between social apathy with social alienation, social effectiveness, relative deprivation, analysis of cost-reward and understanding of justice variables. Multivariate analysis results indicated that social alienation, analysis of cost-reward and understanding of justice variables determined 29 percent of social apathy variation.