A course project is an important teaching method to improve students' practical ability.In this paper,we explore the relationship among learning motivation,strategies and scores for a course project by taking the course of Digital Image Processing as an example.A total of 292 students from Shanghai University were surveyed with an improved Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire,and the effective sample was 245.The correlation coefficients among the learning motivation,strategies and project scores were calculated;the students were divided into high-score and low-score groups according to the project scores,and the differences between two groups were compared.The results showed that there was a significant correlation between the overall learning motivation and the overall learning strategy(r=0.49,p<0.001).The value component of learning motivation and the overall learning strategies were both significantly correlated with the project scores(p<0.05),and they were significantly different between the two groups(p<0.05).There were significant differences in the resource management strategy between the two groups(p<0.05).Students with stronger learning motivation and strategies can achieve better project scores.