The invention provides a method for separating 4-cyanopyridine through solvent cooling crystallization. The method comprises the following steps: S1, preparing a 4-cyanopyridine saturated solution; S2, cooling the saturated solution to obtain a mixed slurry; S3, carrying out centrifugal filtration on the mixed slurry, washing with pure water, and carrying out centrifugal filtration and drying to obtain highly-pure 4-cyanopyridine; S4, performing reduced pressure distillation on the obtained filtrate to obtain a solute, heating and decolorizing the solute, and repeating step S1 and step S2 to obtain highly-pure 4-cyanopyridine; and S5, collecting the highly-pure 4-cyanopyridine obtained in step S3 and step S4 to obtain the finished 4-cyanopyridine product. The purity of the 4-cyanopyridineseparated through cooling crystallization is high, and reaches up to 99.54%; the primary filtrate and the washing filtrate are distilled and then purified, so the yield of 4-cyanopyridine is increased, and can reach up to 97.2%; and a separation and purification device for 4-cyanopyridine can complete a series of steps of crystallization, centrifugation, washing, drying and the like in separationand purification of 4-cyanopyridine.