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Education plays a very important part in everyone�s life. But the factors associated with it (exams, assignments, competition, etc.) place great amount of stress among students (Martin, 2007). It has been observed that the overall prevalence rates of stress have significantly increased over time (Jain & Singhai, 2018). In particular academic stress, which has become a part of students� academic life, poses a great threat to their psychological and physical well-being.Coping is a dynamic situation-specific reaction to stress. It is a set of concrete response to stressful situations or events that are intended to resolve the problem and reduce the stress. The objective of the study was to find the difference in coping among Day Scholar and Hostellers. A quantitative research approach was used using comparative study Design, there were 36 students who were divided into Day Scholars and Hostellers (n1=18) (n2=18). Coping scale by hamby, Grych, & Banyard was used. Results reveal that the mean score varied between the two variable. Mean of Day Scholar are 31.52, Mean of Hostelers are 31.83. As there is a very little difference in the mean score of Hostellers as compared to Day scholars, we can say that students who are Day Scholars are a bit high on coping as compared to student who are hostellers, as there can be many reasons behind it like Home, Emotional support provided by parents, better health condition and many other factors. Hence the study confirmed that students who are Day Scholars are cope easily from stressful situation as compared to student who are Hostellers. Through this research we have found out that that those who are staying at home have more ability to cope as compared to hostellers.