Graduation design plays a very important role in training college students of bridge engineering majors practice ability, innovative spirit and engineer quality. Based on years of experience guiding graduation design, point out the problems in graduation design stages of students majoring in bridge engineering, from the topic selection, management and other aspects put forward new initiatives to deep the teaching reform of graduation design, including forward graduate design start time, strict control completion time of each stage, standard calculation forms, topic diversification, development scientific and rational evaluation system, and strengthened communication between the teacher and student, thus improving the quality of graduate design of bridge engineering effectively.