A co relational design on Emotional Intelligence and General Intelligence among staff and students of UAS,Dharwad was conducted in the year 2014 to assess the general intelligence and emotional intelligence of 90 staff and 300students of UAS, Dharwad. They were assessed on the measures of Raven’s Advanced Progressive Matrices to test GeneralIntelligence, Baron et.al’s EQ inventory to test emotional intelligence and Aggarwal et.al’s SES scale to measure Socio-Economic Status. The results revealed that majority of the students were in average (46.3%) and below average (43.3%)category while only 2 percent were in above average category and 8.3 per cent were in intellectually impaired category.Majority of the students fell in average EQ category (44.7%), 24.3 per cent in Low EQ, 10.7 per cent in very low EQ, 11per cent in markedly low EQ. There was significant relation of general intelligence with age of students indicating thatyounger students had lower IQ than older students. Majority of staff were in the average category (62.2%), 16.7 per centin low, 3.3 per cent in very low and 1.1 per cent in markedly low Emotional quotient category whereas 12.2 per cent and 4.4per cent were in the high and very high EQ category respectively. Majority of staff were in intellectually average (73.3%)and very few in below average (6.7%) category. There was positive correlation between EQ and IQ of staff but negativecorrelation between EQ and IQ of students, though not statistically significant. However SES did not have any influence ongeneral as well as emotional intelligence. The results emphasises the need for intervention programmes specially foradolescents, emerging adults and professionals to enhance emotional intelligence for better personal, emotional, social andprofessional achievements.