Objective To explore the correlation between psychosomatic health and depressive symptoms among university students. Methods Using a stratified random sampling method we selected 1197 students from a university in Wuhan and adopted the 21 - item Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) together with a self - designed questionnaire for assessment and data collection. We received completed questionnaires from 1179 students (432 male and 747 female students). We computed the contingency frequency of study variables and examined risk factors for depressive symptom using conditional logistic regression. Results We observed about 30.27% of the young students with depressive symptoms, and 24.34% , 5.0% and 0.93% of them had a mild, modest and severe depressive symptom, respectively. The rate in female students was slightly higher than that in male students (31.86% vs 27.55%). We compared variables such as sex, study year, speciality and liveplace of family with the BDI scores by Chi - square Test, but there was not significant difference. We performed a part of multivariate logistic regressions and adjusted with sex, study year, liveplace of family and singlechild. We found that significant associated risk factors with depressive symptoms included parent(s) with diagnosed psychiatric illness(OR =2.38, P