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Interpersonal skills play a vital role in an individual’s personal and professional life. It helps to understand, interact, communicate and manage according to situation effectively. The present study aimed to assess the level of interpersonal skills among higher education students and to explore their interpersonal skills on the basis of various demographic variables such as gender, academic stream, and locality. For which 349 higher education students enrolled in various programmes at Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal university, Uttarakhand, were chosen by using stratified random sampling technique. A descriptive survey research approach was adopted and the data was collected by using self-constructed scale by the researcher. The gathered data was analysed by using SPSS software and MS Excel. The findings revealed that most of the students had moderate level of interpersonal skills and there found no significant difference among higher education students on the basis of gender and academic stream, whereas statistically significant difference was present with respect to the locality among higher education students.

Interpersonal Skills, Communication, Capabilities, Higher Education Students.