In order to improve the cultivation quality of specialty of national traditional sports and seek the scientific and normalized ways of development,this paper investigates nine colleges and universities in which specialty of national traditional sports are established.The results show that the disciplinary construction of national traditional sports is still weaker,enrollment of student source is excessively unitary,course offered is not perfect,orientation of cultivation objective and reality of student employment have gap,and the unbalance between teachers’ professional knowledge and technical ability are the major factors restricting development of such specialty.This paper puts forward the developmental trend of specialty of national traditional sports in the future:theoretical system of discipline should be more perfect; the cultivation objective changes to be “good at many things and expert in one” ; course content should be highly balanced ; the enrollment of student sources should combine“the Shan move ” with “the general move ” and special field system should be highly normalized.