Abstract: Solving curriculum scheduling problem, which is a highly complex nonlinear one, is very important to increase the efficiency of academic management. Confronting the rapid development of vocational education, this paper mainly discussed the management mode of curriculum scheduling system for polytechnic colleges. According to the reality of higher vocational education, the authors focused on the system functionality and data model of the curriculum scheduling system for polytechnic colleges, and proposed the functional architecture of curriculum scheduling system which is fit for the vocational education, and constructed the curriculum scheduling model, and realized the whole system function based on C language.