Nursing profession demands the skills for working in busy schedules, stressful situations and unexpected emergencies in the hospitals. There is need to inculcate good time management skills and reduction in procrastination to prepare the students to work in the hospitals. This cross-sectional study focused on assessing the procrastination, time management skills and its relationship with academic stress among 201 undergraduate nursing students in a private college of South India. Finding showed that mean (+ SD) of procrastination was 88.05 (+ 1.19) which is above the mean (81) score of the tool indicating lesser procrastination by the undergraduate nursing students. There was positive correlation between procrastination and academic stress with r=.185 (p=.009); time wasting and academic stress r=.253 (p=0.001) among the undergraduate nursing students which is statistically significant at 0.05 level of significance. Study implies that helping the undergraduate students for effective time management for reducing the academic stress and better academic performance is essential.