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The aim of this paper is to study the effect of Inferiority and Insecurity on Adjustment among college students. Inferiority feelings are those general human feelings of incompleteness, smallness, weakness, unawareness, and dependency included in our first experiences of ourselves in infancy and early childhood. Insecurity is an inner feeling of being threatened and/or inadequate in some way. Being insecure means feeling anxious and fearful about yourself or something in your life. Adjustment is the behavioral process by which humans and other animals maintain equilibrium among their various needs or between their needs and the obstacles of their environments. A well-adjusted person is aware of his own strength and limitation, respects himself and others, has adequate level of aspiration, has flexibility in behavior, has the capacity to deal with adverse circumstances. A sample of 60 college students was taken. Inferiority & Insecurity Questionnaire developed by Dr. G.C. Pati (1976) and Adjustment Inventory developed by H.S. Asthana (1968) were used to collect data. Correlation coefficients were calculated from the obtained data. Findings suggest that inferiority and insecurity has negative effect on adjustment among college students (r1= -0.40 and r2= -0.66).