The invention discloses a braking energy recovery control method for an electric bus. The method comprises the following steps: step 1, entering an automatic energy recovery mode; 2, sending the current vehicle speed to a vehicle control module; step 3, calculating a target vehicle deceleration and sending the target vehicle deceleration to the vehicle control module, and sending a brake pedal signal to the vehicle control module; step 4, sending the electric quantity of a battery to the vehicle control module, and calculating the maximum available recovery torque at different vehicle speeds;step 5, sending the maximum available recovery torque to a motor controller and executing the maximum available recovery torque by a motor; 6, feeding back the actual energy recovery torque to the vehicle control module and an electronic brake control system; 7, feeding back a real-time deceleration signal to the vehicle control module; and 8, adjusting the energy recovery torque. The reasonable energy recovery torque is adjusted according to the fluctuation of the whole vehicle servicing mass; when the servicing mass is low, the small energy recovery torque is requested, otherwise, the largeenergy recovery torque is requested, so the energy recovery rate is increased, and the braking comfort is considered.