[Purpose/significance] The development of big data brings a historical turn to widely-criticized academic evaluation.Studying academic evaluation based on big data is helpful to solve many problems of academic evaluation and promotes the reform and development of academic evaluation.[Method/process] On the theoretical level,the paper analyzes the possible changes in academic evaluation brought about by big data.On the practical level,it reviews the attempts in academic evaluation based on big data.Then strategies of academic evaluation based on big data are proposed.[Result/conclusion] Academic evaluation based on big data is a necessary trend both theoretically and practically,but it will be realized only if management departments,scholars and evaluation institutions to make positive,active and correct realistic choices in conceptual innovation,theoretical research,technology development and integrated collaboration.