This study aims to explore college adjustment and its relationship with stress for 157 students (48 males, 109 females) from humanities field of Transilvania University of Brasov. I used Baker and Siryk's Student Adaptation to College Questionnaire and Gadzella's Student-life Stress Inventory, and in addition a demographic mini-questionnaire for factual data. I anticipated narrow relationships between stress and college adaptation, and I searched for demographic determinants (gender, age and life environment) of academic adaptation and stress. The results confirm hypotheses and reveal good psychometric properties for the instruments involved in research.