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The study aimed to identify the prevalence of cyber bullying and its relationship to the emotional intelligence of Baha University students. The study was conducted on a sample of (238) students at Al - Baha University, Faculty of Education and Science, were randomly selected. The cyber Bullying Scale was developed by Al-Habashi and Al-Ghamdi (2019) from the Hussein Scale (2016), which includes four dimensions: cloaking, cyber harassment, cyber sexual harassment, and cyber tracking. Also, the Bar-On Emotional Intelligence Scale, which includes (60) items distributed in six sub-dimensions: personal competence, social efficiency, stress management, adaptation, positive mood, positive impression. The study follows the correlative descriptive approach. The results showed that the prevalence rate of the victim was 9.14% and the bullying was 2.34%. It was also found that the average overall degree of emotional intelligence reached (3.017) which corresponds to the average score, and that the highest score for the positive mood and social efficiency, where the average (3.173 -3.38) respectively, which corresponds to the degree often applies, the rest of the emotional intelligence corresponds to the degree Intermediate, except for personal competence where the average (2.218) which corresponds to the degree rarely applies. It was also found that there is a negative correlation between the total degree of cyber bullying and the total degree of emotional intelligence, where the correlation coefficient (.111,) at the level of (.05), and dimension of the management of stress and some dimensions of cyber bullying. (Published abstract)