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Abstract : Academic stress mainly includes mental afflictions which is due to academic demands or failures. Academic stress come to light mostly from the aspects in the students’ environment such as college, home, peer to peer relations, and financial problems .The main aim of the study is to know the academic stress among college students. Kaur (2014) concede that mental health of students arise mainly due to academic stress.This study points out the factors affecting academic stress, problems caused by academic stress and techniques to manage them. For this purpose a questionnaire was prepared after considering various aspects of academic stress. A sample of 133 students were collected out of which 85 were female and 48 were male. Understanding the various sources of academic stress would help the students to tackle them by using various techniques and it often helps the college to keep a close check on the students and to implement stress management techniques in the college.