Under the background of continuous deepening of domestic education reform, higher education management research is facing many challenges. Based on this, this paper explores the development process of China’s higher education, reveals the problems existing in the current management process of China’s higher education, such as concept deviation, system and mechanism ossification, and then finds a way out from the aspects of concept innovation, system optimization, team construction, etc., to promote the development of higher education management research, improve the quality of higher education, enhance the strength of China’s higher education in the international competition, and provide strong support for the cultivation of high-quality talents needed by the times.