Using random sampling method, this paper conducted an investigation of ecological civilization construction in ten different types of colleges and universities in Hunan province, and the results show that there are some prominent problems in ecological civilization education in colleges and universities, such as insufficient attention, weak ecological consciousness, incomplete curriculum system and insufficient professional teachers. All colleges and universities must strengthen university ecological civilization education by improving the construction of ecological civilization awareness, improving the ecological civilization education mechanism, strengthening the construction of curriculum system and speeding up the professional teaching team construction and other aspects, so as to give full play to the colleges and universities in as a new force in the construction of socialist ecological civilization with Chinese characteristics in the new era.