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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship of the general characteristics of health-relatedmajors to their life expectancy scale, depression scale, health perception scale, subjective wellbeing scale, somaticsymptom scale and college life stress scale. And it’s also meant to analyze influential factors for their stress aboutcollege life. Methods: The subjects in this study were the students who were in the department of dental laboratorytechnology and the department of dental hygiene at a college located in the region of Iksan, North Jeolla Province. Conclusion: As the worse physical health and worse mental health(life expectancy, depression, health perception,subjective wellbeing and physical symptoms, etc.) of the college students led to heavier stress about college life, howto promote their physical health and mental health should discreetly be considered, and every necessary measureshould be taken to improve their physical and mental health. Data were gathered in November and December, 2012. The life expectancy scale, depression scale, healthperception scale, subjective wellbeing scale, physical symptom scale, somatic symptom scale and college life stressscale of the general characteristics were analyzed by t-test and one way analyses of variance (ANOVA) and theDuncan’s multiple range test at the 95% confidence level to assess the statistical significance. And stepwise multipleregression analysis was conducted to determine what factors would affect the stress of the students about college life. The data were analyzed with the windows ver. 12.0(SPSS GmbH, Germany) statistical software program. Results: Among the general characteristics, there were significant differences according to gender and age in all thevariables that were life expectancy scale, depression scale, health perception scale, subjective wellbeing scale, physicalsymptom scale and college life stress scale. 61.3% of the students responded they slept for six hours or less, and therespondents who slept for six hours or less scored significantly statistically lower in health perception scale,subjective wellbeing scale and physical symptom scale. As for college life stress, the respondents who got depressedmore often, whose subjective peace or happiness was lower, whose life expectancy was lower, who had worse physicalsymptoms, whose living standard was lower and whose academic year was lower were under heavier stress abouttheir college lives.