Objective To understand the current situation of recessive truancy among college students and explore the intervention effect of group psychological counseling.Methods A total of 1200 university students were surveyed with the recessive truancy scale,and use this scale to measure the design of pretest,post-test and follow-up test in the experimental group and the control group.The experimental group was accepted 8 group psychological counseling inter-ventions,while the control group didn't accepted any intervention.Results College students'recessive truancy was at medium level(M=2.71).There are significant differences in gender(t=2.725,P<0.05)and school type(t=3.432,P<0.05),but no significant differences in grade(F=1.740,P>0.05).There are major effects in both time(F=6.667,P<0.05)and group(F=4.627,P<0.05)of recessive truancy was significant,and the time and group interation of recessive truancy also was significant(F=5.922,P<0.05).Conclusion Most of the college students have less recessive truancy,but 24.5%of them have high degree of recessive truancy.Group psychological counseling can effectively reduce the level of recessive truancy,and the effect is continuous.