The purposes of this study were to develop a checklist, which guides the process of design thinking for the students, and to analyze the case of A university, so as to facilitate the non-subject educational activities in university. From the results of the literature review, we derived the preliminary items included in the checklist. After verifying the content validity, a Delphi survey by 15 experts was conducted. Corresponding to the five steps of design thinking, a total of 22 items, including 3 items for ‘empathize’, 6 items for ‘define’, 5 items for ‘idea’, 3 items for ‘prototype’, and 5 items for ‘test’ were finally selected for the students’ checklist.With regard to their problem solving abilities, the design thinking based program might be beneficial for enhancing students’ competence when it comes to problem clarification and plan execution. Furthermore, the developed design thinking checklists, along with the presented case of the design thinking program, are expected to encourage students to more actively apply the design thinking process to their non-subject educational activities.