Extant research primarily focuses on the challenges and risk factors associated with being an undergraduate student with a mental illness, with far less research considering factors associated with wellbeing. Promoting wellbeing among the considerable portion of undergraduates with mental illness experience is a pressing occupation of post-secondary campuses. This study aimed to examine associates of wellbeing by examining the relations between character strengths of the heart, adaptive coping, and wellbeing within students with a mental illness. Participants were 121 undergraduate students, who were primarily female (n=105) and aged 17-26 (Mage=19.88, SD=2.12). Participants completed measures of character strengths, coping, life satisfaction, and depressive symptomology. Character strengths of the heart and adaptive coping strategies were positively associated. Further, character strengths of the heart and adaptive coping were positively associated with life satisfaction and negatively associated with depressive symptomology. Results of this study provide a potentially empowering view of students who struggle with mental illness as possessing capacities and competencies for development to promote their wellbeing. Theoretical and practical implications for both youth and post-secondary campuses will be discussed.