Abstract: To research the overall picture of the college students’ value of life in the contemporary era and look into what factors decide the formation of college students’ values of life, 453 college students were investigated by the “Scale of Youth’s Life Values”, developed by Mr. Xu Huachun and his partners. According to the data, the value of life was influenced by a series of factors: school, family, gender, age and so on. It showed that the value of life is the result of the interaction between internal factors and the external factors.