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University student’s health behaviors affect their physical health and lifestyle. Which is defined as any activity undertaken by a person who believes to be healthy. For the purpose of preventing disease. This study aims to assess health habits and behaviors among university students. A descriptive design used to conduct this study. Subject: Multistage sampling technique of 500 university students. Setting: Two faculties of theory colleges in Ain Shams University. The study is composed of two-tools. The first tool is self-administrated questionnaire and second tool: Medical record to assess physical health status of them. The result of this study showed that, 39.8% of university students aged 17-19 years old, 95.6% of them had unhealthy nutrition habits, 79.2% of them had healthy hygiene habits, 26.4 %, of them don’t smoke, 92.0 % of them had unhealthy habits in technology usage, 43.8% of USs were overweight, 48.8 % of university students had health problems. As regard the research questions of the present study, it concluded that, there were statistical significant between socio demographic characteristics of university students, their health problems, abnormal laboratory investigation, and their Body Mass Index and total knowledge of university students and their total healthy habits. There were no statistical significant relations between health habits of male university students and their Body Mass Index. The study recommended that, development of health education program about health habits related to nutrition, exercise, hygiene care, stress, sleep, exercise, obesity and weight loss plans to improve their awareness and prevent their unhealthy habits and its effect. (Author’s abstract)