This paper is to find out the university students’ political perception and political attitude in the internet era through an investigation of the students in five universities in Shanghai. The research reveals that the political attitude of university students tend to be moderate and rational generally. The university students are patriots but not nationalism zealot. They accept the ideology of freedom, democracy and political participation and have strong sense of equity and justice. They refuse to regard the western democracy as disaster while are confident about Chinese democracy with socialist characteristic at the same time. Meanwhile, the influence of internet on students’ political attitude is obvious. The attempts of high education institutions of forging campus-based social network and guiding the internet’s influence are needed though their effect is far from significant.