The current global urbanization rate has increased year by year. The city in the development process is bound to suffer a lot of contradictions. Correspondingly, urban design gradually attracts people's attention. At the same time, related courses and majors also gradually rise in colleges and universities. Urban design professional talents are lack in China. To study the current situation of relating foreign education will be helpful to the development of professional education and practice in China. This paper gave an overview of current situation of urban design discipline in higher education in Asia. Combined with the QS discipline rankings, this paper selected three representative Asia universities as cases to analyze the development situation of the subject, including professional settings, educational goals, curriculum contents and other main points, aiming to give some guidance to professional setting and training program designing in domestic urban design education.