Epilepsy is a typical neurological issue which influence the focal sensory system and can make individuals have seizure. It can be surveyed by electroencephalogram (EEG). A wavelet based HURST EXPONENT strategy is displayed for the analysis of epilepsy. This strategy deals with the nonlinear analysis of EEG signals. Discrete wavelet transform is used to disintegrate the original EEG signal into specifi c subbands.The hurst exponent of diff erent sub-bands is employed and then fed into two classifiers, namely SVM and KNN. The highest classifi cation accuracy obtained in the presented work is 99% for healthy subject data versus epileptic data is obtained by SVM. However, the corresponding accuracy between normal subject data and epileptic data using SVM is obtained as 99% and 93% for the eyes open and eyes shut conditions, respectively. The detailed analysis of the methodology and results has been discussed in the paper. © 2018, University of Kragujevac, Faculty of Science. All rights reserved.