The so-called life value refers to a person's position and role in society. It is a philosophical category. The value of life is different from the value of goods, which includes the value of existence and the value of activities. If a person wants to realize his own life value, he must correctly understand and grasp the relationship between existence value and activity value.

For college students, as a special group, they not only have the general attributes of the existence value and activity value of ordinary people in society, but also have their own special attributes. In the whole learning stage of university, it mainly reflects the existence value of college students in society. College students enter the society after graduation. Their life value is mainly reflected in their responsibility and contribution to family and society. Therefore, the life value of college students is the perfect unity of social respect and satisfaction for individuals and personal responsibility and contribution to society.