Background: Stress can have an impact on a student’s academic performance. Studies showed that college students have many obstacles to overcome in order to achieve their optimal academic performance. It takes a lot more than just studying to achieve a successful college career. Different stressors such as time management, financial problems, sleep deprivation, social activities, medium of learning, other barriers of communication, can all pose their own threat to a student’s academic performance and leads to academic stress. Method: Descriptive exploratory survey design was used for the study. The study was conducted at Smt. Nagarathnamma College of Nursing, Bengaluru. A social demographic checklist containing demographics and clinical variables were given to 50 students studying in the above-mentioned college in Bengaluru. Subjective and objective data was collected with the help of the checklist and data was analysed and results were interpreted by using descriptive and inferential statistics. Results: Distribution of samples reveal that the students are in the age group of 18 to 23 yrs. considering both 2nd and 3rd year students. The stress is divided into three categories: low, moderate and high. In stress, respectively 8% in 2ndyr and 58% in 3rdyr are having low stress, 66% in 2ndyr and 42% in 3rdyr have moderate stress, and lastly 25% in 2ndyr and no respondents from 3rdyr having high levels of stress. Interpretation: The result shows that majority of samples are having moderate stress. Conclusion: The following conclusions were drawn from the study: 1) Almost all the respondents had moderate levels of stress. 2) The levels of stress varied based on many variables and were aggravated during online classes.