With a comparative analysis from the respects of subject, object, environment and tools on higher education quality standards of America, UK and Australia, we found there were various differences among America, UK and Australia higher education quality standards’ subjects and objects, i.e. “government type” and“non-government type” subjects, “voluntary” and “mandatory” objects. Those differences are caused by the divergence that exists among their higher education administrative system, i.e. decentralization system and centralization system. However, there are similarities in the environment and tools of higher education quality standards of those three countries. Three countries have a comparatively perfect legal environment, and they all have responding state laws that guarantee higher education quality standards’ formulation, execution, evaluation and control; besides, they have similar tools. Three countries adopt the same method, i.e. combining self-evaluation with external evaluation. Their evaluation procedure is basically the same.