Studying is a challenging period of life for each student. Accept of numerous possibilities, the academic world brings a lot of stress, which students have to deal with. Insufficient information for students is one of the sources of academic stress, therefore, the problem of this project work is insufficient knowledge of presumable weaknesses of state and private higher education institutions in the Republic of Croatia, which arise from students' lack of information about various aspects of studying. The author was intrigued to investigate the similarities and differences in terms of satisfaction with information about different aspects of studying and the intensity of academic stress between students at public and private faculties, and to determine the possible connection between (dis)satisfaction with information and the intensity of academic stress. For the purposes of the paper, a quantitative research was conducted in the form of an online survey questionnaire on a sample of 102 students from one public and one private faculty. The analysis of the answers indicated statistically significant differences in terms of satisfaction with the general conditions of studying, teaching and information on various aspects of studying to the benefit of a private college students. The intensity of academic stress for students of both faculties is most evident in oral exams and exam failures, and least in parental pressure and short breaks between lectures. In the expression of certain ways of coping with academic stress, there are no significant differences between students of both faculties. It has been determined a negative connection between the satisfaction with informing and the intensity of academic stress of public and private college students, from which it can be assumed that the lower is the informing of the students, the greater is the academic stress. Nevertheless, in order to generalize the observed differences, it would be more desirable to conduct a more extensive survey of information of the students’ satisfaction and coping with academic stress on a representative sample of students from a considerable number of public and private colleges.