With the rapid development of BIM application in the field of engineering construction, the important role and value of information in the whole life cycle of engineering put forward a clear demand for colleges and universities, where senior professional and technical talents are to be cultivated. Under the background of professional certification, how to reflect BIM in the course setting and training sessions, and then support the training objectives and graduation requirements of civil engineering professionals, in order to meet the demand of industry development for BIM literacy of civil engineering professionals is an important problem faced by colleges and universities. This paper investigates the current situation of BIM curriculum system construction of civil engineering specialty in 9 typical American universities and 26 domestic universities that have passed the engineering professional certification, analyzes and discusses the characteristics and existing problems of BIM curriculum in domestic universities. On this basis, combined with the OBE concept of civil engineering professional certification, the current research proposes the BIM course teaching content and three kinds of course offering methods under the background of civil engineering professional certification, and analyzes the advantages and limitations of the three methods, so as to provide some reference for the construction of civil engineering professional BIM course system.