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Suicide is a public health and social unlawful phenomenon which is known as a conscious or an unconscious tragic reaction to stress, depression or trauma demonstrated by an individual or a group of individuals with a direct or indirect intention of putting an end to their own lives by either self- poisoning, shooting, knifing or by hanging (voluntary homicide). The present study aimed to know the suicidal tendency among boys and girls. It also aimed to check suicidal tendency with reference to level of education and gender. The Suicidal Tendency Scale (Revised) (STS-R) by Rasik G. Meghnathi (2020) was used. The sample constituted total 120 college students out of which 60 were from undergraduate (30 boys students and 30 girls students) and 60 from postgraduate (30 boys students and 30 girls students). The data was collected from normal population of Gandhinagar District. The data was scored, analyzed as per the manual. 'F' test was being calculated. The result showed that 1. Undergraduate students have more suicide tendencies than postgraduate students, 2. The boy's college students are having more suicidal tendencies than girl's college students and 3. There is no significant difference between interactive effect of mean score of the suicidal tendency among level of education and gender.