In this fast-growing academic sector, college teachers endure high work stress due to heavy workload as besides teaching, they are forced to do administrative work and extra-curricular activities and also due to shifting roles and accelerated technological progress. Work stress is particularly high in self-financing colleges, where institutional support is limited. Work stress has a reflective impact on employees, leading to emotional responses, such as fear, frustration and anxiety. The technological growth in the educational sector leads to partial inefficiency among faculties as they are unable to cope with the upgradation. This is due to lack of technical knowledge and inability to adapt. Such faculty members experience work-related stress while implementing new technologies, which, in turn, may also lead to organizational silence. Organizational silence refers to withholding of information, facts and issues from the management because of various reasons, like fear of job loss, retaliation or lack of security, etc. This study aims to examine the relationship between work stress and organizational silence among faculty members in self-financing colleges. The findings indicate that work stress significantly contributes to organizational silence. Based on the findings, it is recommended that the management of self-financing colleges may take steps to reduce work stress among teachers by facilitating open and free communication, stress management programmes and counseling in colleges.