The purposes of this study were to investigate the aboriginal students' health promoting lifestyle and to compare the difference between the aboriginal students and non-aboriginal students . The research instrument was the Chinese version of Health Promotion Lifestyle Profile. One hundred and four aboriginal students and 100 non-aboriginal students were randomly selected from a nursing institute. The results of this study were as the following:(1).Among 40 items, most (23 items) of the health promoting behaviors distribute from "sometimes" to "usually". (2). The six dimensions of the health styles ranked from the highest to lowest score were interpersonal supportive, self actualization, stress management, nutrition, exercise and health responsibility. (3). Comparing health promoting behaviors between the aboriginal students and non-aboriginal students appear almost the same or not different. Threr are no significant differences between them, in the six dimensions and the total scores of HPLP. But differences exist in two dimensions (nutrition and stress management) and other eight kinds of behaviors. (4). Aboriginal students have comparatively high ratio of heavy weight and single parent family, 59.6% of aboriginal students stated that they had at least one kind of uncomfortable, especially abdominal and head. The findings of this study can be applied to the nursing courses of the school, the health promotion lifestyle of the aboriginal students and the future research.