The purpose of the study was to compare the somatotype and anthropometric variables of active and sedentary females of Punjabi University, Patiala. Total 80 (40 active and 40 sedentary) female age ranging between 17 -25 years were selected as subjects. After the collection of the relevant data, it was processed and analyzed with descriptive statistics. To compare the somatotype and anthropometric variables of the subjects, mean, standard deviation and t-test were employed with the help of statistical package of SPSS. To test the hypothesis the significance level was set at.05 percent. After statistical treatment, result showed that there was significant difference between active and sedentary females in anthropometric variable of height, weight and calf skinfold. On the other hand there was no significant difference between active and sedentary females in anthropometric variable of humerus bicondylar.