Physical education is a compulsory content in the universities today, in order to provide knowledge, basic movement skills, forming sports exercise habits, improving health, and contributing to the implementation of comprehensive educational goals. Realizing the current goal of fundamental and comprehensive renovation of education and training, improving the quality of physical education in the universities is an objective requirement as well as the basis and conditions for realizing the goal of holistic human development. The article focuses on clarifying some issues about physical education, the objective necessity to improve the quality of physical education, thereby assessing the current state of physical education in the universities to propose some solutions to improve the quality of physical education in the universities to meet the requirements of comprehensive development for the students today.