As an old Chinese proverb goes," Experience helps us overcome dificulties".This paper makes an objectively analytic comparation between American higher education and that of our country in accordance with our investigation of the history,present state,management models and their operating mechanisms,collection of funds and their management,construction of teachers' teams,enrollment of new students and their employment,curriculum structures and their teaching methods and developing trends of American colleges and universities to find out the deficency and,especially,the strong points of our country' s higher education to make us understand better our mission and responsibility and futher enhance our confidence and determination to develop our higher education with Chinese characteristics.