Independent Colleges as a new mode,is a product of China's deepening reform of higher education,is a result of integrating national universities' educational resources with high quality and social schooling forces and private capital.Independent colleges should achieve the coordinated development of scale,quality,structure and benefit.Based on actual condition,it is easy to draw up and implement scientific developing strategy.This paper reviews the development of China's independent colleges and summarizes in the four stages,rise phase,the confirmation stage,the development of scale stage,the specification development stage.With the introduction of SWOT,it can make systematic analysis of independent colleges' Strength,weakness,opportunity and threat,and it does the tentative study on independent colleges' developing strategy,focusing on the following terms,the continuous innovation of developing concept and running notion,development of running quality and educational resources,the coordinated promotion of talent construction and university culture construction,the close integration of subject construction and regional economic development,the organic unity of managing system and school characteristics.