In order to adapt to the development of the times and better cultivate civil engineering professional compound talents, on the basis of investigation and study, this paper summarized the plight of talent training in civil engineering, and laid special stress on analyzing the deficiencies of traditional undergraduate tutorial system. Combining with the characteristics of civil engineering talents training, reform and improvement measures were put forward, and had been carried out in the major of geotechnical and underground engineering. Practice proved that, the implementation of undergraduate tutor system could individualize and guide students to establish a correct outlook on life, values and world, which can help to train civil engineering professional compound talents of high-quality and strong ability.