Objective To know the mental health of the poverty college students. Methods Adopting SCL-90 and UPI, we carried on a questionnaire survey and contrast the result of 2882 poverty students with that of 8337 non-poverty students. Results The nine factor scores of poverty students are higher than that of non-poverty students; in three grades, each factor score of poverty students of 2nd grade was the highest; some of factor scores of rural poverty studen...