Along with the development of the society, more and more civil engineering graduate students are recruited, and different kinds of problems emerge unceasingly.Graduate students’ study enthusiasm, study purpose and academic thought are different each other, so the postgraduate education work is very difficult.This paper takes the school of civil engineering of Zhengzhou University as an example, studies the ideological and political education content and method of civil engineering graduate students, in which the ideological and political education and specialized knowledge education are wellknit.