With the increasing demand for planning talents in the society, the major enrollment of human geography and urban-rural planning in various universities has also attracted widespread attention. From the perspective of geography, this paper analyzes the spatial and temporal characteristics and influencing factors of the enrollment of human geography and urban-rural planning majors in Hubei provincial colleges and universities from 2013 to 2017 and found that: (1) From the perspective of time, during the study period, the overall enrollment of this major showed a downward trend, with a large decline from 2013 to 2015 and a slight recovery in 2016. From 2013 to 2017, the planned enrollment of this major in other provinces is on the rise, but it does not affect the overall trend. (2) From the perspective of space, The enrollment of human geography and urban-rural planning major generally shows a pattern of more students in the west and less in the east, with the middle part in the middle and the northeast not distributed based on geographical features, whereas shows a pattern of more students in the southern region and less students in the northern based on the division of Qinlin mountain-Huaihe river; From the perspective of change trend, the enrollment of eastern regions is on the rise and then on the decline, while that of central and western regions is on the rise. From the perspective of the change range of the students’ number, some provinces, such as Yunnan, Hunan and Xinjiang, have a relatively large change range of the students’ number, while Anhui, Guizhou and Tibet are relatively stable. From the perspective of the stability of student sources, the central region is relatively stable, while the eastern and western regions change a lot, especially the eastern region. (3) The main factors affecting the temporal and spatial distribution of the major enrollment are population factors, economic development level and policy differences. In addition to the above factors, social factors, cultural factors will also have a certain impact on the spatial and temporal distribution of the major enrollment.