Higher educational structure and industrial structure play a complementary role in the society. With the development of society, it becomes an important subject to adjust the structure of higher education to adapt to the changes of industrial structure and to achieve a relatively dynamic balance. Based on the functional perspective of higher education, the indicators was selected from the four aspects of talent training, scientific research, educational input and social service in the structure of higher education, and the indicators was subdivided from the primary, secondary and tertiary industries respectively in the structure of industrial. Using the coupling coordination model, the data of Hubei Province from 2009—2019 to 11 years was measured. Empirical analysis found that the coordination between higher education and industrial structure in Hubei Province was in a stable rising state from 2009 to 2019. Two systems were lowly coordinated and in an unbalanced and uncoordinated state in 2009—2010, and were in a run-in phase in 2011—2014, and they were in a high-coordination state of stable development in 2015—2019. According to the empirical results, some suggestions are put forward for the better coordinated development of higher education and industrial structure.