The professional accreditation is an important part of higher education accreditation, establishing and implementing the professional accreditation has already been widely recognized in China’s education and engineering. Based on introduction the accreditation system of higher engineering education in developed countries, this paper analyzes higher engineering education professional certification status in China, and then points out the problems in the higher engineering education. At last, it puts forward to establish a new thought of accreditation system of higher engineering education with Chinese characteristics.