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A shopaholic is a person considered to be addicted to shopping otherwise known as shopping addiction, A slang term for Compulsive Shopping also known as Compulsive buying disorder or pathological buying disorder, is a mental health condition characterized by the persistent, excessive, impulsive, and uncontrollable purchase of products in spite of severe psychological, social, occupational, financial consequences is characterized by an obsession with shopping and buying behaviour that causes adverse consequences. Persons with CBD are preoccupied with shopping and spending, and devote significant time to these behaviours. The consequences of compulsive buying, which may persist long after a spree, can be devastating, with marriages, long-term relationships, and jobs all feeling the strain. The most effective treatment is to attend therapy and group work in order to prevent continuation of this addiction. Objectives1. To assess the prevalence of shopaholic among college students. 2. To associate the level of shopaholic with selected demographic variables among college students. college students.MethodologyA descriptive design was employed by using Non probability convenient sampling technique. Data was collected from 100 students of undergraduate students at S.V college, Tirupati. Data analysis consisted of descriptive and inferential statistics. Results In this study out of 100 undergraduate students 34(34 %) have the prevalence of shopaholic and remaining 66(66%) are not. The prevalence was associated with demographic variables like education of mother, monthly income of father, monthly family income were statistically significant at 0.01 level whereas age, type of family, type of living area, socio economic class were statistically significant at 0.05 level and remaining were statistically not showing any significant association. ConclusionThe study concluded that there is significant association on prevalence of shopaholic related to age, type of family, type of living area, and socioeconomic, education of the mother, monthly income of the father, monthly family income whereas gender, religion, education of the father, monthly income of the mother, marital status, occupation of the father and occupation of the mother were statistically not showing any significant association. Awareness programmes should be conducted to the school and graduate with different area. The present study finding serve as a basis for the professionals to conduct further studies on shopaholic disorder. Awareness programmes should be conducted to the school and graduate with different area and also can conduct same study with different variables on a large sample.