The purpose of this study are to investigate listening comprehension problems and listening comprehension strategies used by students to cope with their problems. Descriptive method was used to conduct this research. The research was carried out in state Islamic university of Walisongo semarang. The total of participants consisted of 120 students of advanced listening comprehension class at the third semester of English department. Data was gathered by using questionnaire. The result of analyzing listening comprehension problems and listening comprehension strategies showed that listening was very difficult for students. It was based on the seven factors of listening comprehension problems including listening materials, basic linguistics, listener concentration, physical characteristics, the listener, the speaker and physical setting. Therefore, speaker speak too fast (81%), unfamiliar words including jargon or idioms (78%), unfamiliar topic (74%), noises around (72%), poor quality of CD Player (72%), speakers pronoun unclear (70%), students difficulties understand without transcripts (68%), poor equipment (67,5%), and variety of accents (67%) were major problems encountered by students. The listening comprehension strategies used were based on three aspects including cognitive, metacognitive and socio-affective. Therefore, students need to try enjoy (83%), felt not nervous (82%), not worried and relax (80%), focus on the text when they had troubles understanding (75%), use knowledge and personal experience (75%), use the understood words to help guess the meaning (73%), use the understood main idea to guess the meaning (72,5%), and always hadgoal in mind (72%). They were the major strategies used by students to cope with their problems in listening comprehension.