Surabaya is the capital of the Indonesian province of east java and the second most populous city plus
metropolitan area in Indonesia after Jakarta with 3.158.943 citizen recorded in the 2019 census. Surabaya
citizen is not only consist of indigenous people who settled in Surabaya but also people outside the city who
urbanized to Surabaya. The city is highly urbanized with industries centralized in the city, one sector that is
urbanized to Surabaya aside the labour sector is from the education sector. Surabaya has a variety of reputable
state and private campuses that serve as a destination for students from various regions to pursue their
education. Urbanization conducted by urban students make their lifestyle become more consumptive with the
facilities and easy access in Surabaya. One of them is the easy access of the famous food in every corner of the
city with various sales promotions (discounts and cashbacks) offered by marketers to stimulate purchases by
urban students. The changes of lifestyle and the various sales promotion stimulate urban students to make an
impulsive purchases. In this study, the populations is 100 respondents. Result of the study revealed that
consumptive lifestyle have significant effect on impulse buying so that urban student with consumptive lifestyle
tend to make more impulsive purchases. While the variable sales promotions don’t have significant effect on
impulse buying which means that the promotions by the outlet have no effect on the impulsive buying decision of
urban students.