Aesthetic education, as an important part of Quality Education, has received widespread attention from schools and various circles of society. China's higher vocational education has developed rapidly since the new century, and the government's attention to higher vocational college education has been strengthened year by year. However, under the influence of pragmatism and utilitarianism, higher vocational education often pays more attention to skill education and ignores the implementation of aesthetic education, resulting in the lack of students' humanistic quality. Therefore, it is imperative to carry out aesthetic education in higher vocational colleges, and it has certain significance of the times to explore the current situation and countermeasures of aesthetic education of students in higher vocational colleges.