A study on academic stress of the higher education level students at Jadavpur University

In order to find out the rate of prevalence of academic stress among the higher education level students of Jadavpur University based on their gender, caste category, marks on the previous exam and no. of siblings, the researchers conducted the study. Using cross sectional survey design, the study has been administered on 121 Jadavpur University students with the help of convenient sampling technique. A self-made questionnaire was used by the researchers for the sake of data collection. Chi-Square test was used as inferential statistics. And it has been found that the rate of prevalence of Academic Stress among the female students (21.62% at severe level) was more than their male counterparts (8.51% at severe level) and the observed difference was statistically significant.