In order to adapt to the current worldwide engineering education reform and engineering education accreditation needs, and to improve the education quality of ethnic students, the training mode of ethnic students of civil engineering is reformed and explored in this paper taking Mongolian students as an example. On the basis of meeting the requirements of the professional standards and engineering education accreditation, and proceeding from the actual situation of ethnic students, the training objectives and curriculum system that meet the characteristics of ethnic students are formulated, and the new concept of "practice innovation" is put forward. In the implementation of teaching, the idea of "embodying the training characteristics in the training process" is emphasized. Oriented to the training goal, reform measures are carried out in the whole process and every link of the training of ethnic students, integrating course content, strengthening ideological and political education, optimizing course arrangement, strengthening the teaching of practical courses, reforming the teaching methods and means, independently design project-based problem sets, and reforming the evaluation method. It has realized the characteristic training for ethnic students and improved the education quality of ethnic students.