Music Instruments'Boost in College Students' Academic Performance Fu ShangYang(1),Xu JinQing(2),Hong YiNing(3) (1)School of Mechanical Engineering,Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2)School of Electronic,Information and Electrical Engineering,ShanghaiJiao Tong University (3)School of Electronic,Informationand Electrical Engineering,ShanghaiJiao Tong University Abstract::(付尚扬) It has been widely accepted that playing musical instruments has a positive effect on human's mind and also plenty of research supports this statement.However,little attempt has been made to investigate how musical instruments boost academic performance,especially in the long term.By using questionnaires to collect information about students'school marks and also giving interviews to get their subjective feelings,we show that musical instruments can help college students of liberal arts achieve better academic performance while their influence is much slighter on students of science and engineering.The findings suggest that musical instruments can improve students'memory but can hardly help them in Maths.The research provides a new perspective on how musical instruments can help students in their academic performance. Keywords: Musical instruments;Academic performance;Questionnaire;Interview;Memory; 2/142 / 14 Music Instruments’Boost in College Students’ Academic Performance Fu ShangYang(1),Xu JinQing(2),Hong YiNing(3) (1) School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao TongUniversity (2) School of Electronic, Informationand Electrical Engineering, ShanghaiJiao TongUniversity (3) School of Electronic, Informationand Electrical Engineering, ShanghaiJiao TongUniversity Abstract: (付尚扬) It has been widely accepted that playing musical instruments has a positive effect on human’s mind and also plenty of research supports this statement. However, little attempt has been made to investigate how musical instruments boost academic performance, especially in the long term. By using questionnaires to collect information about students’ school marks and also giving interviews to get theirsubjective feelings, we show that musical instruments can help college students of liberal arts achieve better academic performance while their influence is much slighter on students of science and engineering. The findings suggest that musical instruments can improve students’ memory but can hardly help them in Maths. The research provides a new perspective on how musical instruments can help students in their academic performance. Keywords: Musical instruments; Academicperformance;Questionnaire; Interview;Memory;