Based on the analysis of the main role of self-cultivation in the procession of postgraduate education, the goals, contents, and methods of self-cultivation for civil engineering postgraduate were deeply discussed. The cultivation objections of civil engineering postgraduate are fundamental researcher and technical engineers who have solid professional knowledge, strong research ability and outstanding practical working ability. This fact requires the civil engineering postgraduates cultivate themselves actively in professional knowledge, research ability and working ability. These three aspects are analyzed and discussed respectively in this paper, and the self-cultivation goals and content requires are proposed for the purpose of providing theoretical references and advice to the postgraduates education.