Objective: Quantitative structure activity relationship (QSAR) model for anticonvulsant activity was developed from a set of twenty seven, 2,3-disubstituted-4(3H)quinazolinone derivatives that exhibited remarkable inhibition by in-vivo locomotor activity in Swiss albino mice using phenytoin as model drug.The 2D-QSAR Material and methods: studies were carried out using the partial least squares (PLS) method coupled with stepwise variable selection, with r2 = 0.9949 and q2 = 0.9761; the 3D-QSAR studies were performed using stepwise variable selection k-nearest-neighbour molecular field analysis (kNN-MF) approach; with cross-validated correlation coefficient (q2) of 0.7818 and a predicted r2 for the external test (pred_r2) of 0.5904.Experimental results revealed that the Results and conclusion: alignment-independent descriptors, electrostatic and steric field descriptors were significantly correlated to anticonvulsant activity of 2,3-disubstituted-4(3H)quinazolinone derivatives. The results helped to understand the nature of substituent around quinazolinone nucleus, thereby providing new guidelines for the design of novel anticonvulsant drugs.