Aiming to develop low cost and environmentally friendly SCR catalysts, various transition metals and rare earth elements have been used and combined to prepare polymetallic oxide catalysts in recent years, which generally exhibit excellent SCR performance. Here four typical metal elements (Mn, Ce, W and Ti) have been selected to prepare polymetallic oxides (WMnCeTiOx) catalysts, and the effects of preparation methods, such as coprecipitation (CP), sol-gel (SG), and deposition precipitation (DP), on the performance of selective catalytic reduction of NO with NH3 at 160~360 ºC have been investigated systematically. Some key techniques of XRD, BET, XPS, H2-TPR, NH3-TPD and in-situ DRIFTS were used to characterize the physicochemical properties of the prepared WMnCeTiOx catalysts. The SCR activity measurement results showed that NH3-SCR activities of WMnCeTiOx catalysts prepared through coprecipitation and deposition precipitation methods exhibited much better NO removal performance in the temperature range of 160~360 ºC than that prepared via sol-gel method. More importantly, WMnCeTiOx catalysts prepared through coprecipitation method exhibited superior SO2 and H2O tolerance compared with those prepared via deposition precipitation and sol-gel methods. It demonstrated that the preparation process imposed a crucial impact on the physicochemical properties of the prepared WMnCeTiOx catalysts, thus influencing on their SCR performance. According to the characterization results, the better performance of WMnCeTiOx(CP) catalyst could be ascribed to its higher concentrations of Mn4+ and Ce3+, larger surface area and highly-dispersed active species on catalyst surface. In addition, compared with WMnCeTiOx catalysts prepared by deposition precipitation and sol-gel methods, WMnCeTiOx(CP) catalyst possessed much more surface acid sites, stronger reduction capacity and better adsorption capacity for NH3 and NO, which might also play a key role in promoting its SCR performance.