Background: How we should deal with a psychiatric patient?  in order to help, support and use their energies as a productive part of the society first we need to understand the mentality and attitude of the educated members of the community toward psychiatric disorders.

Objective: to assess the attitude of male and female university students toward psychiatric disorders in Taif university, KSA by assessing the level of stigma , the level of fear from psychiatric patients and participant’s opinion about the duties could be given to a psychiatric patient. Also see the participants’ knowledge about the causes, treatment and the available facilities for psychiatric disorders.

 Methods: A cross sectional observational study was conducted as a pre–designed questionnaire with a yesno ended questions, partially using CAMI scale (Community Attitudes toward the Mentally Ill) with modification .It was randomly published among 3 different University colleges in Taif, Saudi Arabia . A total of 381 participants between the age of 20 to 25, 169 from College of Medicine 68 male and 101 female  , 109 from College of Computing and Information Technology , 50 male and 59 female ,103 from College of Art– Foreign Language Department 47 males and 56 females . data collection was conducted from the 5th of February 2017 . we used IMB SPSS Statistics program for windows version 16 for data analysis.

Results:80 ( 20,9 %) of students believe that one of the most important causes of mental illness is spiritual as evil eye or sorcery . 251 ( 65,8%) of students think that mentally ill doesn’t have any signs and looks just like a normal person and 298 (78.2%) Think that the best cure for  psychiatric disorders is spiritual treatment (Quran or  Ruqyah  ) but 38 ( 9.9%) believe that psychiatric disorders couldnot be cured. 81 (21.2%) Think it is socially not accepted to go to a psychiatric doctor, 134 (35.1%) have a shape of fear from the mentally ill as speaking to them, 167 ( 43.8%) think psychiatric disorders is an obstacle  against success.