This study investigates the meaning of life for Chinese college students and the basic concept of V. Frankl´ logotherapy. Special attention is given to the relation of the meaning of life to responsibility, seif-transcedence, and time perception respectively. The subjects are 873 students from colleges and junior colleges. The findings are as follows: 1. One-fourth of the students feel a lack of purpose and meaning in their lives. Among college students, girls have more sense of existential vacuum than boys. 2. For college students, the meaning of life has positive relation to responsibility, self-transcendent value, and time perception, but negative relation to powerlessness. In general, the results support Frankl´s concept of logotherapy. 3. The result also shows that the Purpose-in-Life Test, which measures the sense of meaning in life of Chinese students, has construct validity and discriminant validity. Based on the preceeding findings, some recommendations for the counse ling to students who find little or no meaning in life are offered to colleges and educational authorities.