Individuals differ in the way they learn. Learning style is a natural / preferential habitual way by which a student absorbs, processes and comprehends information in learning situation. It has a significant effect on the process of acquiring and retaining information. Several models for determining learning styles have been developed. One of them, the sensory model is VARK questionnaire based on visual (V), aural (A), read-write (R) and kinesthetic (K) mode of learning and was used in the study. Objectives of this study were to determine learning style preferences (LSP) of students with biology background enrolled in medical/ dental professional college, to compare LSP of medical vs dental students and to identify gender difference if any. 241 medical and dental students ,74.0% female and 26%male, were evaluated for their LSP using VARK questionnaire. 55% students were found to be unimodal, 9% bimodal and 40.7% multimodal in LSP. Predominant LSP of 134 unimodal students was Visual (27), Aural (44), Read-write (6) and kinesthetic ( 55) . LSP between medical (n=77) and dental students (n=164) were compared. 57.1% medical students were unimodal whereas 54.9% dental students were unimodal. 36.3 % medical students were multimodal vs 42.7% dental students. On comparison of LSP amongst male (n=70) and female students (n= 171), 80% of females had predominant single modality preference for K -39.7%, A – 23.4% , R-11.4% and V- 4.2%. Male students also had a predominant single preferred modality of learning (86%) and showed a similar percent distribution of V, A and K modalities, 6.3%, 10.9% and 39.1% respectively. However, the preference for aural mode of learning was higher in males (31.3%) as compared to females (23.4%). Acquiring information utilizing a single predominant modality was most common irrespective of gender with overall predominance of kinesthetic mode. For predominant single modality, data for male and female students were comparable for all modalities except for aural mode which was more preferred among male students. There was no difference in the preferred learning style among medical and dental students.