With the aid of computer symbolic systems Maple, and by an improved algebraic method which is used to construct a series of more general exact solutions to nonlinear differential equation or coupled equations, we have solved the (2+1)-dimensional Broer-Kau-Kupershmidt equation, and obtained a number of new exact solutions including polynomial solutions,exponential solutions, rational solutions, triangular periodic solutions,hyperbolic solutions, and Jacobi and Weierstrass doubly periodic wave solutions.