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Multiple Intelligence type can influence students- preferences in taking part in classroom activities. They will learn better when they drive their skills. Hence, teachers are expected to know the characteristics of their students. This research aimed at identifying students- dominant types of Multiple Intelligence. It assigned 77 students of Muhammadiyah Junior High School of Borobudur. It was actually a descriptive quantitative research employing questionnaire of MI Inventory to gather the data. It was adapted from Rogers Indicator of Multiple Intelligence. The most dominant type was Kinesthetic (mean = 75.78) followed by Interpersonal, Musical, Naturalist, Visual-Spatial, Intrapersonal, Logical-Mathematics, and Linguistics (mean = 62.45). Based on the results, mostly they were in moderate range. Besides, kinesthetic style could be taken into account in designing classroom activities to get better achievement.