This paper aimed to compare the emotional intelligence of management and engineering students. A sample of 160 students (80 Management and 80 Engineering) was selected through stratified random sampling technique from the Hyderabad City of Telangana State, India. For the sake of data collection, Mangal Emotional Intelligence Inventory (MEII) developed by Mangal, S.K. and Mangal, S. was used. The mean, SD and t- test was employed to analyze the data. The study revealed that there is no significant difference between the level of emotional intelligence of management and engineering students. There is significant difference between the level of emotional intelligence of management and engineering male students. There is no significant difference between the level of emotional intelligence of management and engineering female students. The study also found that there is significant difference between the level of emotional intelligence of management male and female students. However, there is no significant difference between the level of emotional intelligence of engineering male and female students.