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 Abstract— How to motivate students has been a long standing issue with educators. It is argued that Self-efficacy is an important determinant of student's motivation. This research will determine the relationship between academic motivation and Self-efficacy of the student at the undergraduate level. The study works on a two hypotheses i.e. 1). There is an association between self-efficacy and academic motivation. 2). There is a gender difference in self-efficacy and academic motivation of undergraduate students. Data was collected through random sampling method and 135 participants from various Business Schools in Karachi during summer semester 2012-2013 were selected .To assess motivation questionnaire developed by Vallerand's (1989) Achievement Motivational Scale (AMS) was used and General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSE; Ralf Schwarzer, and Mattias Jerusalem,1995) was administered to assess self-efficacy. For the first hypothesis i.e. there is an association between self-efficacy and academic motivation Pearson Product Moment Correlation was applied. For second hypothesis i.e. there is a gender difference in self efficacy of graduate students, t-test was applied through Statistical Package for Social Sciences, version 17. The result suggests that there is a significant correlation between self- efficacy and motivation. However, the findings of second hypothesis showed no gender difference in academic motivation and self- efficacy.