At present, the research and practice of the judicial review for disciplinary action against students in China’s colleges and universities is still decentralized, and the guidance and impetus for the unified action are also insufficient. Taking the “expulsion from school” punishment as an example, on the basis of ca_x005fses and theoretical analysis, the overall impression and orientation of the evolution of judicial review of disciplinary action against students in colleges and universities can be extracted. That is, under the premise of respecting the “academic freedom” of colleges and universities, “discretion and judicial control” are introduced into the punishment that seriously affects students’ rights, such as expulsion from school, and guided by the exquisite structure of modern due administrative procedures and the accurate understanding and application of science and technology, the method of reviewing the administrative decision - making process is refined as the best scheme for the interaction and integration of formalism rule of law and substantive rule of law in the domain of judicial review. This transformation is important to fully protecting the rights and interests of students, improveing the management level of colleges and universities, guideing the theoretical cohesion, unifying the internal order and external actions, and promoting the independent and conscious reform of judicial review.