The present study was planned to investigate the relation between emotional intelligence and students’ stress level. This study helped in achieving the main objectives related to measurement of emotional intelligence of students of three public sector universities, their stress scores and finally the impact of emotional intelligence on stress among these university students. In this regard, pilot testing was performed on the sample of 80 university students to determine the psychometric properties. The researcher distributed 800 questionnaires while received 738 filled questionnaires were received from sampled students of all three northern area universities. For the collection of data, Goleman’s Mixed Model of Emotional Intelligence was used to measure emotional intelligence. A questionnaire was developed consisted of 35 items and five sub-scales as Self-awareness, managing emotion, motivating oneself, empathy and Social Skills in addition to this for measurement the stress of university students 7 item. Self-Awareness (SA) and Empathy (E) abilities have statistically significant negative impact on their stress, whereas Managing Emotions (ME) ability and Motivating Oneself (MO) ability statistically nonsignificant negative impact on their stress. Social Skill (SS) of Emotional Intelligence (EL) positively impact the stress of students however this impact is not statistically significant.