The purpose of this study was to measure the level of self-esteem of college sportspersons and to compare the attributes of self-esteem between male and female sportspersons. Total sample of 182 college sportspersons, studying in different colleges affiliated to Panjab University, Chandigarh from the regions of Sri Muktsar Sahib and Fazilka districts of Punjab state, were selected for this study. The purposive sampling was utilized to pick male and female college sportspersons. All the selected subjects were aged 19 to 25 years. Self-esteem Scale (SES-DSDU) developed by Dhar and Dhar (2015) was applied to survey the self-esteem of college sportspersons. To figure out the total self-esteem level of college sportspersons, percentage method was applied. Independent t-test was used to know the difference between male and female college sportspersons. The significance level was set at 0.05. Most of the college sportspersons (55%) had normal self-esteem. While 31% of sportspersons had high and 14% had low self-esteem. Male college sportspersons had significantly higher level of competence, humility, self-worth and self-esteem (total) as compared to female college sportspersons. No significant difference was found with regard to positivity and learning orientation between male and female college sportspersons.