Based on the talent training goal of the civil engineering specialty in application-oriented independent colleges, also the development status of BIM in China and the urgent need for BIM talents in civil engineering industry, the ways of cultivating BIM talents in independent colleges were analyzed. Combined with the civil engineering course system and the teaching resources, the suggestion of the multi-course and combined education of BIM was put forward, which including the suggestion of settings for the current BIM courses and the ways to improve the teaching effect by using BIM advantages etc., then the students' knowledge and application ability of BIM will be improved, which will make them to adapt the development status of BIM technology in our country more quickly.