The aim of this paper was to discuss the differences in recreational exercise participation among technical college students of different school systems. The research was conducted via questionnaires, and 940 forth-year SJSMIT students were selected by stratified random sampling; effective questionnaires of 789 were collected (83.9%). According to the aim of this research, descriptive statistics, item analysis, exploratory factor analysis, product-moment correlation, t-test, chi-square test, and regression analysis were carried out for the processing of collected data. The results were as follows: l. The will and actual participation in recreational exercise of technical college students were mostly occasional; students of SJSMIT, College of Further Education (CFE) had a more need for "recreation information" 2.Students of SJSMIT, CFE had a higher cognition of the value of recreational exercise than students from SJSMIT and showed significant differences in aspects of "mind-body benefits" and " socio-learning".3.Studentsof SJSMIT believed themselves to face a greater obstacle in aspects of " outside resources" and " personal perception"; students of SJSMIT, CFE showed greater obstacles in all other aspects, especially in " personal responsibility". 4.Student participation in recreational exercise exhibited positive relativity for factors such as the school system, expense, importance, and socio-learning; and negative relativity with sex, experience, obstacles of facility environment, and obstacles of getting recreation information. All factors mentioned above reached significant differences. 5.The prediction of student participation in recreational exercise showed significant differences in sex, importance, facility environment, expense, experience, socio-learning, self-education, and recreational information, thus creating 8 variables for the prediction of student participation in recreational exercise; the combined prediction power reaches 14.2%.