The present study examines the relationship between social attributes and academic performance of university students. Social scientists and educationists have to look at the academic performance of students. In this paper social attributes like age, gender, rural-urban background and social origin to mention but a few have been included in order to understand how these factors affect students’ performance in the university examinations. Interview method was employed for collecting data from a sample of 250 university students studying in different post graduate departments of Bangalore University. The findings of the study reveal that younger and female students perform better than their elder and male counterparts; urban students outperform rural students. It was also found that there is a statistically significant relationship between social origin and student academic performance.
