The invention relates to a maize oligopeptide and a method for preparing same, belonging to the field of biological technology. The method takes the byproduct, namely corn protein powder (also called maize yellow powder containing about 60% of protein) in corn starch production as a raw material, removes the impurities such as starch, grease and the like by the treatment of alkaline water and obtains high-purity corn protein slag; furthermore, the corn protein slag is taken as enzymatic hydrolysis substrate and treated by the following process of pre-treatment, enzymatic hydrolysis, multi-step separation and purification, concentrating, drying and the like so as to prepare the maize oligopeptide powders with edible value and various health-care functions. The method for preparing maize oligopeptide has the advantages of easily obtaining raw material, simple process and higher industrial feasibility. The prepared maize oligopeptide sample has high crude protein content and small molecular weight, has various physiological activities of prompting immunity adjustment, anti-fatigue and the like, and can be used as new functional nutritional compounding and widely applied to the development and production of products such as foods, health-care foods and the like.