Method: the survey and analysis of the mental health status of contemporary graduate student in five successive years from two dimensions(Longitudinal and Transverse) by SCL-90 scale; two aspects (Subjective and Objective)of the situation and needs of psychological characteristics of graduate students by the questionnaire of graduate students′mental health which made by us. Results: ⑴the five year longitudinal research found that graduate students mental health abnormality rate of any factor above 2.5 points was 4.9﹪-12.5﹪; any factor above 3 points was 1.0﹪-3.5﹪; ⑵the mental health status of whole female graduate students was better than the whole male graduate students′; ⑶the aggregation of ten factors was very common between two groups of male and female graduate students. ⑷The needs of male and female graduate students′ subjective mental health had a little difference. In addition, on the basis of this research, we put forward five specific educational suggestions.