Based on the 35859 papers from CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastructure), and applying the co-occurrence theory, the article analyzes the present situation, hot topics and research direction of the higher education assessment and evaluation in China from the perspective of SNA. Some results were gained. Research in the field has been increasingly hot, and the theme has been richened, but it mainly concentrated on a few topics, such as “universities”, “the quality of teaching”, “evaluation”, “teaching”, “teaching management” and “evaluation index system”, which are most research hot topics. Eliminating the ordinary theme of “university”, there are some keywords like “teaching evaluation”, “teaching management”, “evaluation index system”, “college teachers” and “assessment”. They are strongly radioactive due to some degree of co-occurrence with other research topics. And with further clustering analysis we see clearly the three gathered group of research direction. And from the temporal change of the quantity we also see the three stages of evaluation research themes, which continue to expand and deepen in the past time.