The study has attempted to find out the differences between the students of KUK and MDU on various dimensions of political socialization, viz., political knowledge, political interest, political participation, political values, political efficacy/cynicism and political attitude as a whole and gender-wise, habitat-wise, gender & habitatwise, caste category-wise, stream-wise, income group-wise, parents education levelwise, parents occupation-wise, family size-wise, mass media exposure-wise, political awareness-wise, affiliation to politically oriented student organization-wise, participation in political parties and student union-wise and politically affiliated family-wise.

A sample of 1040 students has been appropriately drawn from the KUK and MDU cutting across three major subject groups, namely, Political Science, Non –Political Science and Science, further stratified into different categories on the basis of social, educational, and family background of the students.

Tools and Techniques: Questionnaire constructed by the Investigator. TheQuestionnaire is constituted of Personal data sheet, Political Socialization Scale and Political Attitude Scale.

The study has arrived at quite meaningful findings as follows:􀂾 Sex factor reveals differences on political socialization and its all dimensions except political knowledge. While female students of KUK have higher mean scores on political interest, male students of MDU have higher mean scores on political participation, male students of KUK have higher respect for political values, male and female students of MDU have higher respect for political efficacy and female students of KUK have more favourable attitude towards political socialization.􀂾 Residence factor shows differences on total political socialization as well ason four of its dimensions, namely, political interest, political participation,political values and political efficacy. Rural students of KUK have higher mean scores on political interest and political efficacy/cynicism. However, urban and rural students of the MDU have higher mean scores on political participation, and political values. 1 Sex factor when examined with respect to residence of university students shows significant differences on political socialization and its all five dimensions. Rural female students of MDU have higher scores on political knowledge as compared to rural male and female students of KUK. Further male urban students of MDU have higher score on political interest as compared to female urban students of KUK. Female and male urban students of MDU have higher scores on political participation as compared to female urban students of KUK. Further male and female rural students of MDU have higher scores on political efficacy/cynicism as compared to male and female rural students of KUK. The male and female urban students of KUK have higher score on political socialization as compared to male urban students of MDU. Further the male and female rural students of KUK have higher score on political socialization as compared to male and female rural students of MDU. 􀂾 Caste factor of university students shows differences on political socialization as well as on its three dimensions, namely, political knowledge, political participation and political efficacy/cynicism. General caste students of KUK have higher mean score on political knowledge and political socialization. General caste and SC/BC students of MDU have higher mean score on political participation and political efficacy/cynicism. 􀂾 Subject group factor adheres to the differences on political socialization and its all dimensions. Political Science students of KUK have greater political knowledge and have higher respect for political values and they also have more favourable attitudes towards political socialization. Further non- Political Science students of KUK have higher mean scores on political interest and political efficacy. However, Political Science and Science students of the MDU have higher mean scores on Political interest, Political participation and political efficacy/cynicism. 􀂾 Parents income factor shows significant difference on Political Socialization and its all dimensions. The students of KUK belonging to high income group and low income group show higher mean scores on political knowledge as compared to students of MDU belonging to high, middle and low income groups. However, the students of KUK belonging to high income group have higher respect for political values and the students of KUK belonging to low income group have higher mean score on political socialization. The students of MDU belonging to low, middle and high income groups have higher mean scores on political interest, political participation, and political efficacy/cynicism as compared to the students of KUK belonging to low income, middle income and high income groups. 􀂾 Parents education factor presents differences on political socialization and its all dimensions. Parents occupation factor presents differences on political socialization and its all dimensions. 􀂾 Type of family factor shows differences on political socialization and four of its dimensions. Joint family students of KUK are possessing higher political knowledge as compared to nucleus families students of MDU. Nucleus family 2 students of KUK have higher scores on political interest as compared to the students of MDU belonging to joint families. However the nucleus family students of MDU have higher score on political participation and political efficacy as compared to the students of MDU belonging to joint families. 􀂾 Exposure to mass media presents differences on political socialization and its all dimensions. 􀂾 Political awareness factor shows differences on political socialization and its all dimensions.Political affiliation factor shows differences on political socialization and its all dimensions except political knowledge. Political participation factor shows significant differences on political socialization and its all dimensions except political knowledge and political interest. 􀂾 Family political affiliation and participation factor shows differences onpolitical socialization and its dimensions except political efficacy/cynicism.