This study investigates the effect of students’ time management on their academic achievement in the higher education institutions of Islamabad. For this purpose, we collected data from a representative sample of students. We employ Pearsons’ correlation and regression analysis to investigate the influencing factors of academic performance. Our results show that students’ self-study has significant and positive association with their academic performance, which indicates that academic performance is increases with the increase in self-study hours. On the contrary, disproportionate involvement in social life enjoyment activities are detrimental to higher academic performance. Female students’ academic achievement is higher than that of male students. Perhaps, female students are good time managers and spend more time on self-study. For policy purpose, seminars should be arranged to educate students on how best to allocate their time being enrolled for a full-time study.

Keywords: Time Management, Academic Achievement, Islamabad.