The goal of this study is observing how the character strengths following leisure sports activity and the type of university, such as education and general university, affects resilience. Concerning research subjects, a total of 432 students from 2 education university, and 2 university, located in Seoul, Chungcheong and were selected. The analysis of collected data was conducted by an exploratory/confirmatory factor analysis for verifying construct validity of measurement tool and verified three-way interaction effect through hierarchial regression analysis. According to the research result, the positive effect to resilience is strengthened following participant leisure sports activity and character strengths among education university students. Especially, it is considered that the type of university is decisive variable for enhancing personal resilience since the character strengths did not have an positive effect on resilience following the participant of leisure sports. Put above results together, for enhancing resilience of students, not only the underlying psychological factor like character strengths but also the environmental factor like leisure sports and type of university should be considered.