This research was aimed at know the students vocabulary learning strategies and the frequently used strategies that the students have. This research was descriptive study, the population of the researcher was the second semester students of English Department of Muhammadiyah University of Purwokerto in Academic year 2016/2017 and the number of population was 79 students. In this research the researcher took all of the population as sample, and the technique of sampling used total sampling. In collecting data the researcher used a questionnaire as an instrument which consisted of 25 items adopted from Schmitt’s (1997) taxonomy of vocabulary learning strategies. The researcher analyzed the data by using percentage to decide the strategies in learning vocabulary most frequently used by respondents. The results of the research finding were: determination strategies (71.5%), memory strategies (70.2%), social strategies (68.4%), metacognitive strategies (66.2%), and cognitive strategies (62.9%). The score result indicated that the determination strategy was mostly used by the second semester students of English Education Department of Muhammadiyah University of Purwokerto in Academic year 2016/2017. The students like to use bilingual dictionary to find the meaning as well as guessing the word meaning through context.