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The present research work was aimed at studying the impact of gender, nature of course and locality of residence on Decision making styles of teacher trainees. A sample of 600 teacher trainees studying in colleges of education of Krishna district in Andhra Pradesh was taken for collection of data. The stratified random sampling technique was employed. The Decision making styles of the teacher trainees were assessed by using Decision Making Styles Scale (DMSS) constructed by Dr. Noorjehan N. Ganihar. The obtained data were subjected to descriptive statistics such as Mean, S.D and inferential statistics such as ANOVA to test the hypotheses. The investigator of this study concluded that there is significant impact of gender, nature of course and locality of residence on Decision making styles of teacher trainees. Women and arts teacher trainees are found to use Routine, Compromise Decision making styles more frequently whereas men and science teacher trainees use Heuristic decision making styles more often. Urban teacher trainees use Routine Decision making styles more often when compare to rural teacher trainees and rural teacher trainees use Compromise and Heuristic Decision making styles more frequently than urban teacher trainees.