In today's scenario of pursuing education bring a tremendous amount of stress to the college students that influence both physical and mental health of the students. The purpose of this paper is to examine the differences of stress perceived in gender wise and its impact on health and mental issues to the students thereby lead to burnout of the students community in general. The sample size used for the study is 250 students of engineering college. General health questionnaire (GHQ) and Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) were the instrument used to measure the level of stress and health factor concerned. The study indicates female students are more prone to stress than the male students. The study also revealed exams are described to be high stressor in about 50% of all examined students.
Stress, Mental health, burnout syndrome, engineering students
