The aim of the present study was to determine achievement orientation (competitiveness, win orientation and goal orientation) among university level individual and team athletes. For this purpose, six hundred (N=600) male athletes (individual sports N1 = 300 and team sports N2 = 300) of age ranging from 18 to 25 years were selected as subjects from various colleges affiliated to Guru Nanak Dev University,__ampersandsignnbsp; mritsar, Panjab University, Chandigarh and Punjabi University, Patiala. Sport Orientation Questionnaire (SOQ) developed by Gill and Deeter (1988), was used for collection of the data. The Student__ampersandsignlsquo;s t-test for independent data was applied to find out the significance of differences among individual and team athletes. The level of significance was set at 0.05. Results revealed significant between group differences among individual and team athletes on the variable achievement orientation. While comparing the mean values, it has been observed that the individual sports athletes have demonstrated significantly better than the team sports athletes on the variable achievement orientation. Considering the various parameters as applied on different set of subjects the results proved to be variant in nature and scope in relation to achievement orientation.