Abstract:Risk society has become a normalcy in the modern society. As an important indispensable part in the society, colleges and universities also enter into the crisis. Based on the status quo of risk management in China’s colleges and universities, this paper points out such problems as out-of-date ideology and early warning mechanism, imperfect management institutions and feedback and assessment mechanism. This paper then proposes countermeasures on how to adhere to such principles of prevention first, rapid reaction, unified command and people orientation and how to improve risk management in colleges and universities: update the ideas in order to increase the awareness, take charge in unison and jointly administrate so as to form resultant force and establish perfect early warning mechanism, interest coodination mechanism, mental intervention mechanism and information communication and management mechanism.