Mathematics plays an important role in accelerating the social, economical and technological growth of a nation. It is more so in India as the nation is rapidly moving towards globalisation in all aspects. Therefore, it is necessary to prepare the students with a strong base of mathematical knowledge to face the challenges of the modern technological society. Therefore the investigator survey method was used to collect information to measure a study on problem solving ability of under graduate students. Purposive sampling technique was used for selected the sample from the population. The sample consists of 489 undergraduate students studied in I, II and III years, selected from arts and science college in Salem District, Tamil Nadu. The researcher has constructed and standardized the following research tool (Questionnaire for problem solving ability) to collect data from the sample. The collected data was tabulated then the data was analyzed statistically used both descriptive analysis (mean & standard deviation) and differential analysis (‘t’ and ‘F’ test).