Abstract: Under the background of Digital Campus Fundamental Construction Project that is based on the CORS stations, and aiming at a better understanding of application of Excel to process field data among students majoring in the measurement technology and other related specialties, thus to deepen their understating of relevant courses, an experiment, in combination with the project, the teaching and the current situation about students, is conducted which involves the introduction of the various approaches about the use of Excel in control surveying, the train of thought and the commonly used formulas, the set up of a route up to the standard and a closed-on-itself traverse in the campus surveying practice grounds. After the measurement, the data was fed into computer for Excel editing formula treating. The results show that Excel is flexible and fast in processing control surveying data with a relatively high accuracy, and can immensely relieve the workload of the survey crew with much practical value.