diff --git a/jvm-packages/xgboost4j-spark/src/main/scala/ml/dmlc/xgboost4j/scala/spark/XGBoost.scala b/jvm-packages/xgboost4j-spark/src/main/scala/ml/dmlc/xgboost4j/scala/spark/XGBoost.scala
index ad4dc10e5..9187e2e41 100644
--- a/jvm-packages/xgboost4j-spark/src/main/scala/ml/dmlc/xgboost4j/scala/spark/XGBoost.scala
+++ b/jvm-packages/xgboost4j-spark/src/main/scala/ml/dmlc/xgboost4j/scala/spark/XGBoost.scala
@@ -331,8 +331,13 @@ object XGBoost extends Serializable {
       val isClsTask = isClassificationTask(params)
       val trackerReturnVal = tracker.waitFor(0L)
       logger.info(s"Rabit returns with exit code $trackerReturnVal")
-      postTrackerReturnProcessing(trackerReturnVal, boosters, overriddenParams, sparkJobThread,
-        isClsTask)
+      val model = postTrackerReturnProcessing(trackerReturnVal, boosters, overriddenParams,
+        sparkJobThread, isClsTask)
+      if (isClsTask){
+        model.asInstanceOf[XGBoostClassificationModel].numOfClasses =
+          params.getOrElse("num_class", "2").toString.toInt
+      }
+      model
     } finally {
       tracker.stop()
     }
@@ -389,6 +394,7 @@ object XGBoost extends Serializable {
     modelType match {
       case "_cls_" =>
         val rawPredictionCol = dataInStream.readUTF()
+        val numClasses = dataInStream.readInt()
         val thresholdLength = dataInStream.readInt()
         var thresholds: Array[Double] = null
         if (thresholdLength != -1) {
@@ -403,6 +409,7 @@ object XGBoost extends Serializable {
         if (thresholdLength != -1) {
           xgBoostModel.setThresholds(thresholds)
         }
+        xgBoostModel.asInstanceOf[XGBoostClassificationModel].numOfClasses = numClasses
         xgBoostModel
       case "_reg_" =>
         val xgBoostModel = new XGBoostRegressionModel(SXGBoost.loadModel(dataInStream))
diff --git a/jvm-packages/xgboost4j-spark/src/main/scala/ml/dmlc/xgboost4j/scala/spark/XGBoostModel.scala b/jvm-packages/xgboost4j-spark/src/main/scala/ml/dmlc/xgboost4j/scala/spark/XGBoostModel.scala
index 8f209eebf..8be830764 100644
--- a/jvm-packages/xgboost4j-spark/src/main/scala/ml/dmlc/xgboost4j/scala/spark/XGBoostModel.scala
+++ b/jvm-packages/xgboost4j-spark/src/main/scala/ml/dmlc/xgboost4j/scala/spark/XGBoostModel.scala
@@ -305,6 +305,7 @@ abstract class XGBoostModel(protected var _booster: Booster)
         outputStream.writeUTF("_cls_")
         saveGeneralModelParam(outputStream)
         outputStream.writeUTF(model.getRawPredictionCol)
+        outputStream.writeInt(model.numClasses)
         // threshold
         // threshold length
         if (!isDefined(model.thresholds)) {
diff --git a/jvm-packages/xgboost4j-spark/src/test/scala/ml/dmlc/xgboost4j/scala/spark/XGBoostDFSuite.scala b/jvm-packages/xgboost4j-spark/src/test/scala/ml/dmlc/xgboost4j/scala/spark/XGBoostDFSuite.scala
index 972971efd..d5ac77dbd 100644
--- a/jvm-packages/xgboost4j-spark/src/test/scala/ml/dmlc/xgboost4j/scala/spark/XGBoostDFSuite.scala
+++ b/jvm-packages/xgboost4j-spark/src/test/scala/ml/dmlc/xgboost4j/scala/spark/XGBoostDFSuite.scala
@@ -192,6 +192,7 @@ class XGBoostDFSuite extends FunSuite with PerTest {
     val model = XGBoost.trainWithDataFrame(trainingDF, paramMap, round = 5, nWorkers = numWorkers)
     assert(model.get[Double](model.eta).get == 0.1)
     assert(model.get[Int](model.maxDepth).get == 6)
+    assert(model.asInstanceOf[XGBoostClassificationModel].numOfClasses == 6)
   }
 
   test("test use base margin") {
diff --git a/jvm-packages/xgboost4j-spark/src/test/scala/ml/dmlc/xgboost4j/scala/spark/XGBoostGeneralSuite.scala b/jvm-packages/xgboost4j-spark/src/test/scala/ml/dmlc/xgboost4j/scala/spark/XGBoostGeneralSuite.scala
index b1db09db7..0b96a5f2c 100644
--- a/jvm-packages/xgboost4j-spark/src/test/scala/ml/dmlc/xgboost4j/scala/spark/XGBoostGeneralSuite.scala
+++ b/jvm-packages/xgboost4j-spark/src/test/scala/ml/dmlc/xgboost4j/scala/spark/XGBoostGeneralSuite.scala
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ class XGBoostGeneralSuite extends FunSuite with PerTest {
     import DataUtils._
     val tempDir = Files.createTempDirectory("xgboosttest-")
     val tempFile = Files.createTempFile(tempDir, "", "")
-    val trainingRDD = sc.parallelize(Classification.train).map(_.asML)
+    var trainingRDD = sc.parallelize(Classification.train).map(_.asML)
     var paramMap = Map("eta" -> "1", "max_depth" -> "6", "silent" -> "1",
       "objective" -> "reg:linear")
     // validate regression model
@@ -318,6 +318,26 @@ class XGBoostGeneralSuite extends FunSuite with PerTest {
     assert(loadedXGBoostModel.getFeaturesCol == "features")
     assert(loadedXGBoostModel.getLabelCol == "label")
     assert(loadedXGBoostModel.getPredictionCol == "prediction")
+    // (multiclass) classification model
+    trainingRDD = sc.parallelize(MultiClassification.train).map(_.asML)
+    paramMap = Map("eta" -> "1", "max_depth" -> "6", "silent" -> "1",
+      "objective" -> "multi:softmax", "num_class" -> "6")
+    xgBoostModel = XGBoost.trainWithRDD(trainingRDD, paramMap, round = 5,
+      nWorkers = numWorkers, useExternalMemory = false)
+    xgBoostModel.asInstanceOf[XGBoostClassificationModel].setRawPredictionCol("raw_col")
+    xgBoostModel.asInstanceOf[XGBoostClassificationModel].setThresholds(
+      Array(0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5))
+    xgBoostModel.saveModelAsHadoopFile(tempFile.toFile.getAbsolutePath)
+    loadedXGBoostModel = XGBoost.loadModelFromHadoopFile(tempFile.toFile.getAbsolutePath)
+    assert(loadedXGBoostModel.isInstanceOf[XGBoostClassificationModel])
+    assert(loadedXGBoostModel.asInstanceOf[XGBoostClassificationModel].getRawPredictionCol ==
+      "raw_col")
+    assert(loadedXGBoostModel.asInstanceOf[XGBoostClassificationModel].getThresholds.deep ==
+      Array(0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5).deep)
+    assert(loadedXGBoostModel.asInstanceOf[XGBoostClassificationModel].numOfClasses == 6)
+    assert(loadedXGBoostModel.getFeaturesCol == "features")
+    assert(loadedXGBoostModel.getLabelCol == "label")
+    assert(loadedXGBoostModel.getPredictionCol == "prediction")
   }
 
   test("test use groupData") {