Abstract: With the continuous development of society, people's requirements for the environment are higher and higher, and the demand for environmental design is increasing. Most people want to design the environment to make the environment more beautiful, so as to meet people's aesthetic needs. Therefore, many environmental design related majors have been set up in colleges and universities to cultivate talents in environmental design and meet people's needs for environmental design. In recent years, with the continuous development of environmental design specialty, it has experienced a series of reform process from outside to inside, which is very long. In the new situation of higher education reform, what professional knowledge should the students of environmental design major learn? Which direction will environmental design major develop? It is also related to the development of students majoring in environmental design and the development of this major.

Key words: Higher education reform, New situation, Development direction