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ABSTRACT: Background: The COVID-19Pandemic has been in India since January 2020and for precautionary measures the Government has taken actions such as total lockdown of School, Colleges, and Universities which lead students to study from home by doing online lectures which further lead students into coping with different level of stress. In this Covid-19 Pandemic students are suffer from social, emotional and physical as well as family problems may influence their learning ability and academic performance. Excessive stress may result in mental and physical problems and may diminish a student�s sense of worth and might affect his/her academic achievement. In this study, perceived stress scale and student stress scale were used for assessment of level of stress in Undergraduate Physiotherapy students in which various questions were asked through by Google forms. Aim: To Identifying Academic stress in physiotherapy undergraduate students due to COVID-19 Pandemic. Objectives: To study level of stress in physiotherapy undergraduate students. To study class wise distribution of level of stress in physiotherapy undergraduate students Methods: In this study, perceived stress scale and student stress scale were used for assessment of level of stress. The questions of these scales were asked online through by Google forms to all physiotherapy undergraduate students. Total 120 students responded. Result: We found that student were having mild to moderate academic stress in this COVID-19 Pandemic. Conclusion: The study conducted on 120 participants. In this study result has been concluded that student are mild to moderately stress in this COVID-19 Pandemic. All most 88.33% students has moderate level of stress according to Perceived Stress Scale and 42.45% students has slightly stress (mild) according to Student Stress Scale. Key words: Academic stress, COVID-19 Pandemic, Perceived Stress Scale, Student Stress Scale.