This study investigates the contemporary status of college student needs and students’ ways to cater such needs. We find three new features that are noteworthy: first, the strongest type of need is the employment need, which also has an impact over the evolution of college student needs on learning, ability development, as well as interpersonal relationship; second, the need on participating in public administration becomes increasingly important; third, the internet has become an alternative option of students to meet their various needs and students’ dependence on the network is growing. According to our empirical results, we propose a framework of constructing the studentneedoriented responding mechanism.