Objective To investigate violence against college students so as to provide a scientific evidence for the implementation of preventive measures for them.Method 1 365 college students from a normal university and a public security university in Changsha city took anonymous questionnaire about violent encounter in the past 12 months.The characteristics of violence against college students were analyzed with the method of stratified cluster random sampling.Results The incidence of violence in all subjects was 75.2%.Among them

the incidences of spiritual

physical and sexual violence were respectively 72.5%

30.8% and 28.3%.They suffered violence mainly in the places of amusement

accounting for 43.8% and violence was most from strangers

accounting for 27.2%.Conclusion The incidence of violence against college students is high and universities should pay adequate attention and take preventive measures to protect them from violence.