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Today distance education is catering to the needs of variety of learners at all levels. Highest number of distance students are enrolled at undergraduate level. This research aims to identify relation of achievement motivation to self confidence of distance and regular undergraduates. This research also compared the achievement motivation and self confidence of distance and regular undergraduates. For this purpose 100 regular ( 50 male, 50 female) undergraduates from DU colleges and 100 distance ( 50 male, 50 female) undergraduates from IGNOU study centres were selected randomly. Data was collected with help of Achievement motivation tool prepared by researcher and Pandey's self-confidence inventory. Data was analysed with the help of Pearson Product moment correlation and t test method. It was found that achievement motivation is positively co-related to self confidence in case of both regular and distance undergraduates. It was also found that regular undergraduates have more achievement motivation than distance undergraduates. No significant difference was found in self confidence of distance and regular undergraduates.