Educational activities need teamwork from stakeholders to achieve intended targets. Teamwork is a collaborative process involving interactions and communication. Social interactions result in successful collaborations when social intelligence is applied. Social media platforms are used extensively by university students for their social interactions. Social media usage is a behaviour with a pattern that can be determined psychometrically. With this idea, the present research was conducted to study the association of social media usage with the context of social intelligence, referring to gender and subject stream. The study involved a sample of 208 students stratified based on subject stream, i.e., arts and science students and gender. The data was collected via a proportional stratified sampling technique for fourthsemester postgraduate students of the university. The study's findings suggest the group performed average for social intelligence and high for social media usage. The students of the arts stream showed higher social intelligence than science students. The male students performed better in social intelligence, and the female students showed higher social media usage

Keywords : Interpersonal Intelligence, Practical Intelligence, Social Platforms, Social Networking, UserFriendly Media, Higher Education Institutions