This study analyzed the effect of marriage on the academic performance of female students in a selected public university, named University of Chittagong in Bangladesh. For this purpose, 106 married female students were selected from different faculties of university by using the purposive and snow-ball sampling techniques. A number of statistical hypotheses were generated and tested by using the chi-square and paired sample t tests. The findings show that academic performance of married female students has significant effect with some factors such as study hour, time spent over mobile phone, getting help from husband and in-laws family members for study, respondents’ faculty and satisfaction level in marital status. On the other hand, class attendance, management of financial needs, getting pressure to take child from husband and in-laws family members has been found insignificantly related with their academic performance. The analysis reveals that marriage have notable positive effect on higher studies for female students and most of the student’s result remain constant & raised because of contribution and help of their husband & in-laws family members for household work, marital satisfaction and mental stability with financial security.