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Background: Generally, Last-year students are busy to accomplish their final project which really psychologically burdened them so they were bored and experienced the high level of stress and the decreasing of concentration. Concentration is one of the main components which should be possessed to accomplish the final project. The low level of students- concentration is caused by the lack of programmed physical activity then it leads to unhealthy life pattern. Aim: This research aims to obtain benefits from the exercise of programmed physical activity in improving the concentration of last-year students. Method: The research conducted was an experimental research with one group pretest – posttest design. The source of data in this research was the seventh semester students of accounting in STIE Graha Karya Muara Bulian, Batanghari, Jambi which consisted of 20 students where 10 students are male and the other 10 are female who are in their final project writing program. The subjects of the research did some physical activities such as programmed aerobic exercise which previously was conducted the same pretest with the post test that was a grid test. The exercise was given three times with 15 minutes given for each repetition in 1 session (break for five minutes in each repetition) and was conducted for 3 sessions per week, simultaneously for 6 weeks in row. Result: Based on the research, it is obtained the result as follow: from the test, it is discovered that the value of Sig (2-tailed) is 0,000 < 0,05, then it can be concluded that there is relation between the result of concentration test in pretest data and posttest data. Conclusion: The conclusion of this research shows that programmed aerobic activity can effectively improve concentration of last-year students at STIE Graha Karya Muara Bulian, Batanghari, Jambi.