The purpose of this study was to explore the attitude of university students toward the environment. The target population was from the Department of Child Care and Education at HungKuang Univesity (HKU), Taiwan. The New Environment Paradigm (NEP) scale developed by Dunlap and Van Liere (1978) was administrated to understand students’ environmental attitudes. A total of 816 valid questionnaires were collected. The result indicated that even the item nine “It’s a human right to improve natural environment in order to fulfill humans’ living needs” was not well performed according to the item analysis, it was still acceptable. Factor analysis showed that there were three factors were developed, accounting for 56.624% of the total variance. These three factors were named as “Balance of nature”, “Anti-anthropocentrism”, and “Limit to growth”. The average scores for factors of “Balance of nature” and “Limit of life” were above 4.0. This result revealed that the Department of Child Card and Education students at HKU have positive attitudes toward the environment. Students who have previous enrolled in environmental education related classes after entering college had better attitudes toward the environment than those students who didn’t. suggestions were provided for curriculum modification and future research.