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Although Chinese universities are required to implement sexual harassment interventions, few studies have estimated how well interventions are perceived by students and the association with their perceptions and attitudes toward sexual harassment. This study aims to examine the perceptions and attitudes toward sexual harassment and perceived sexual harassment interventions among university students. Further, it evaluated the association between sexual harassment interventions and sexual harassment perceptions and attitudes among university students and explored potential gender differences in the observed associations. We categorized sexual harassment interventions into three types of strategies (informal education activities, prevention mechanisms, and multiformat publicity) and designed an 8-item scale for sexual harassment perception and a 10-item scale for sexual harassment attitude. A total of 872 students were recruited from six universities in Beijing, China. Association between intervention strategies and sexual harassment perceptions and attitudes was analyzed using multiple linear regression. The results showed that 78.56% of the university students recognized all sexual harassment behaviors, and 11.58% felt angry about all sexual harassment behaviors. Male students felt angrier at same-sex harassment than female students ( p\u2009&lt;\u2009.001). Overall, the students were aware of approximately 3 of the 13 sexual harassment interventions. None of the three intervention strategies was significantly associated with perceptions of sexual harassment ( p\u2009&gt;\u2009.050). The attitude toward sexual harassment was positively associated with informal education activities (coeff\u2009=\u20090.055, p\u2009=\u2009.015) and multiformat publicity (coeff\u2009=\u20090.077, p\u2009=\u2009.030) among female students, and negatively associated with prevention mechanisms (coeff\u2009=\u2009\u22120.123, p\u2009=\u2009.033) among male students. Our findings imply that sexual harassment interventions are not well known among university students. 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