The ability to control and manage emotion when dealing with others is a crucial skill set needed by students to safeguard their self-esteem, create a harmonious educational environment, and maintain social relationships. Such skills should be boundless by the geography in which they study, be it in urban or suburban university. Using the Social Emotional Competency scale, the study investigated the differences between urban and suburban university students on social emotional competency. A group of 359 nursing students from two different universities i.e. urban and suburban participated in the survey. The T-test analysis shows that despite the disparity in location, both groups of students did not differ in terms of social emotional competency. The study emphasised the importance of universal exposure of education on social emotional competency in the university setting.