In the face of the spread of the COVID-19, the distressed economic situation and the sharp decline in international students have posed significant and long-term challenges to civil engineering education in Australia. By describing the impact of the COVID-19 on Australian higher education, this paper analyzes and reflects on the current situation of the development of civil engineering discipline in Australia under the epidemic, revealing that the depth and specialization of undergraduate civil engineering education in Australia is not high; the characteristics of the curriculum can hardly be reflected under the epidemic, and the advantages of professional practice have nowhere to show; the progress of scientific research is slow and the efficiency is reduced, and proposes that China's civil engineering professional education should deal with the relationship between education generalism and professionalism, pay more attention to the positive experience of students, and improve students' comprehensive abilities. Meanwhile, it is of great necessity to upgrade the degree of curriculum boutique and specialization to promote the comprehensive development of discipline education, to formulate the core competitiveness of universities, so as to inject new vitality into the civil engineering education in China.