Purpose: To manage and live the best life of both lives i.e. work life and personal life is very difficult now a day’s especially those who are working. The term work life balance evolved in 1970 among the employees of corporate sector. Now this concept has become popular in every sector including education. In education sector, teachers have been facing challenges while maintaining a good work life balance. Hence, the purpose of this paper is to find out the challenges faced by the teachers of Degree Colleges in Mumbai and its suburb.

Methodology: This study is based on the responses of teachers from different faculties working in degree colleges which are affiliated to University of Mumbai. A structured questionnaire has been used to gather responses from the sample respondents.

Findings: It is found that work life balance problem is faced more by female teachers than the male teachers. They could not pursue their further education like M.Phil, Ph.d, MBA etc. their health has affected, and they could not enjoy their life at the fullest and so on

Management Implications: This study may give insight regarding the problem that teachers usually face. Due to increasing working hours, workload and involvement in extracurricular activities, academic growth through which teachers can not able to maintain good balance at their work and personal life. Hence the study can help to education minister to divert attention towards the problems faced by teachers due to imbalanced work and personal life.

Research Limitations: The study has undertaken only the Degree College teachers affiliated with University of Mumbai. Only 100 samples of respondents considered for the same and analyzed the date by using SPSS software package.