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The study is aimed at finding the mental health and emotional maturity of graduate students in the context of certain demographic variables. A random sampling technique was used to select the sample. The researcher selected 300 graduate students from 10-degree colleges (5 from Govt. & 5 from Private) in two districts Hyderabad and Rangareddy of Telangana. The Mental Health Inventory of Jagadish and Srivastava, A. K. (1983) and the Emotional Maturity Scale of Roma Pal (1984) were employed to collect data in this research. Test-retest reliability was found to be 0.77 for mental health inventory. The reliability coefficient of the split-half method and test-retest were 0.74 and 0.77for the emotional maturity scale. The results of this investigation showed that significant differences occurred among graduate students when compared on the variables of type of management and academic stream, whereas insignificant differences occurred among graduate students when compared on the variables of gender, locality, and social status of mental health. Significant differences occurred among graduate students when compared on the variable of the type of management, whereas insignificant differences occurred among graduate students when compared on the variables of gender, locality, academic stream, and social status of emotional maturity. There is a significant and positive relationship between mental health and the emotional maturity of graduate students.