Vol. 4, Issue 3, Part G (2018)

Abstract
This paper undergone with primary data collection. The questionnaire was filled by the college students in puducherry in the academic year 2015. Two stage Stratified random sampling is used as the sampling technique. In the first stage of sampling, the population is divided into three strata. (i) Arts & science college students (ii) Engineering college students (iii) Medical college students. In the second stage of sampling, colleges has been stratified based on the type of institution (government or private). The strata are (i) Government college students& (ii) Private college students. Then one college from Arts & science colleges, one college from engineering colleges and one college from Medical colleges are randomly selected. Thus selected colleges for collecting the samples are Indira Gandhi college of arts and science (Arts & science-Government), Saradha Gangadharan college (Arts & science-Private), Pondicherry engineering college (Engineering-Government), Manakula Vinayagar institute of technology (Engineering-Private), JIPMER (Medical-Government) and Mahatma Gandhi college of medical sciences (Medical-Private). This paper focused on “The Body mass index with stress level of college students in Pondicherry”. Based on this sampling technique, 250 samples were collected and statistical analysis was carried out.