Industry characteristic universities are an important part of China's higher education system and also an important force to promote the development of industry economy. Architecture universities are typical industry characteristic universities which are bound to move towards a new stage of deep integration and symbiotic development with the architecture industry. With the deepening of higher education reform and the urgent need of the transformation and upgrading of the construction industry, the development of traditional architectural universities is facing many problems. In the new period, re-examining the characteristics and connotation of characteristic universities in the industry, analyzing the development dilemma and exploring the way of high-quality development of characteristic universities in the construction industry to help them move towards high-level characteristic universities have become major issues that must be paid attention to and solved in China's higher architectural education.