The study was conducted to identify the socioeconomic variables enhancing overweight /obesity among Bangladeshi higher educated adults. The number of investigated adults was 995; among them 572 were higher educated adults. The rural higher educated adults were 248. The number of overweight/obese adults were 724; among them 432 were higher educated people. The objective of the study was to identify the risk factors for the prevalence of overweight/obesity among these 432 adults. The analysis showed that the risk of prevalence was more among urban people, Muslim adults, males, married persons, servicepersons, upper medium economic group of people, smokers, physically inactive adults, adults having high normal blood pressure, kidney patients, and diabetic adults of longer duration. Among these characters, economic status was the most responsible variable to discriminate 432 overweight/obese higher educated adults. The other important variables were physical activity, gender, residence, smoking habit, occupation, hypertension, and duration of diabetes. This was noted from the results of discriminant analysis.