Construction management is a discipline with strongly practice character. The graduate design is the most important phase to train the student for solving practice problems. Considering the national college education standard for construction management being issued in this year, a survey conducted about graduate design, which are named Capstone course, of construction management major in Georgia Institute of Technology (Gatech) of USA. Based on this survey and benchmark analysis on the famous universities in China， exampling China University of Mining and Technology (CUMT), teaching reforming suggestions for graduate design of construction management major in CUMT were proposed in the field of teaching philosophy, design content, teaching organizing and assessment method.