This paper gives a brief analysis of the popularity of utilitarianism in the modern campus culture.

The two tendencies toward utilitarianism and instrumentalism existed in higher education are main cause of problems.

The hermit culture of the Tang Dynasty demonstrates a new character that is its utility tendency seen in many aspects.

This paper discovers that laying particular stress on educational value leads to the utility of education by looking back of educational history and the probing into the process of study burden produced, and the more of utility of education is stressed, the heavier of the study burden of students will be.

Influenced by traditional culture, social environment and education itself, college moral education has an increasingly strong tendency of utility.

The investigation results shows that there is the diversity and utilitarian tendency in the motivation of college students for joining the CCP,it is unclear for students party members to play an important pole in study and work,the learning on political theo.

There appears a utilitarian tendency in job hunting of university graduates in face of severe competition.

It is based on Luxun′s intention of utilization.

With the reference of sociological theory,educational utilitarianism is found to become the principle to evaluate educational behaviors and ignore the harmonious and all -round development of people,which gradually diverts from the essence of education.