The purpose of this thesis was to compare the stress levels to physical activity levels with the students in Satakunta University of Applied Sciences. The studied period was autumn 2012. Other goals were to find out how the students experience their stress level, and what causes them stress. Also the physical activity level and the attitudes towards physical exercising were to be studied. An additional purpose was to find out if there is a need for further education and promotion of physical activity possibilities in Pori and would there be a need for physical activity groups for stu-dents organized by SAMK.

The research in this bachelor thesis was performed in a quantitative way. The questionnaire was formed by the researcher in an e-form (e-lomake) and it was sent to the participants through the school’s e-mail system.

The questionnaire was sent to 2 groups on each campus in Pori, altogether to 149 students. The response rate was 25, 5% with 38 answers. It appeared that during the autumn term 2012 many of the participants experienced stress and the results showed that the stress levels were quite high (53% over the level of 7 in the scale from 1 to 10). The study showed that those who exercise the most and those who exercise the least experienced most stress during autumn term 2012. It was also clear that the par-ticipants experienced that they had not got enough information about the exercise possibilities in Pori in the beginning of their studies and there is a need for organized student exercise groups.