Objective To explore features of the mental stress and copping manner of college students and the correlations thereof.Method 447 college students were investigated with college students’ psychological stress questionnaire and stress-copping scale.Results The mental stress of college students were academic study（71.8%）

interpersonal communication（67.4%）

job-hunting（56.4%）

physical performance and daily life（24.3%）

status and economic condition（13.1%） respectively.The mental stress varied from gender and grades;the successive copping manners which college students were inclined to use were trying their best to solve problems（73.3%）

seeking supports from others（56.1%）

neglecting and transferring the mental stress（53.4%）

seeking acceptance and understanding（45.1%）

letting off negative emotions（8.3%）.The copping manner also varied from gender and grades;Five factors of the mental stress were all correlated positively with the manner of seeking acceptance and understanding and negative copping manner（P<0.01）.Conclusion In the face of mental stress

female students are inclined to handle them with positive manners while male students with negative manners;the greater the mental stress is

the larger the probability that college students handle stress with negative manners would be.