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Youth mental health is a major public health concern which has significant societal and economic burdens globally. Depression is a common mental disorder cutting across age, gender and socioeconomic status in India and across the world. It is associated with disability, loss of quality of life, increased service use, considerable productivity losses, and increased mortality. The percentage of adults who experienced any symptoms of depression was highest among those aged 18-29 (21.0%). Logistic regression was performed to examine the association between mass media uses and depression among undergraduate students. Result shows that 53.8 % of undergraduate students reported themselves as depressed, in which 46.2 % are grouped under low depression, 48.8 % are mild depressed and 5 % are reported as moderate depressed. Undergraduate students with a more frequent use of print media use was associated with significantly higher odds of having symptoms of depression but broadcast media use had negative odd ratio. In our study, social media use had no significant result. Our result also revealed that students who belong to science background had significantly higher depression compared to students who belong to Arts/social sciences.