This study was conducted to investigate the creative thinking ability of university students according to gender, years, academic speciality and the experience of creativity education. A questionnaire was answered by 929(male; 543, female; 386) university students in Seoul. The data were analyzed with descriptive statistics, ANOVA by SPSS 14.0. It was found that there was a significant difference of creative thinking ability by their gender, major and the experience of creativity education. Female students were more likely to think creatively than male students, and students in liberal arts and social science had higher creative thinking ability than students in engineering and business major. Also, students’ creative thinking ability had meaningful differences with the experience of creativity education. However, there was no significant difference in creative thinking ability according to their years except new elements addition factor. This study would give some implications to develop creativity education program for university students. In addition, limitation of this study and the direction for future research were discussed.