Northwest University for Nationalities, located in Lanzhou City, Gansu Province, is a full-time undergraduate college directly under the State Ethnic Affairs Commission. It was jointly established by the State Ethnic Affairs Commission, the Ministry of Education, the China Academy of Sciences and the Gansu Provincial People's Government. It is the first national university established after the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC).

It is the backbone plan of ethnic minorities, the first batch of pilot universities for the reform of the national education and training plan for outstanding talents in agriculture and forestry, the construction unit of high-level universities in Gansu Province, the member unit of CDIO Engineering Education Alliance and the governing unit of China Entrepreneurship Education Alliance of UNESCO.

The school was founded in Yan 'an by China in * * *, 194 1 and later merged into Yan 'an University. In 1949, it was renamed Northwest People's Revolutionary University.

1950 In August, Northwest University for Nationalities was formally established on the basis of three departments of Northwest People's Revolutionary University, Lanzhou Branch. In April 2003, it was renamed Northwest University for Nationalities. In 2007, the school passed the undergraduate teaching level evaluation of the Ministry of Education with "excellent" results.

As of June 5438+065438+ 10, 2022, official website shows that the school has 25 teaching units, including 22 secondary colleges and 2 departments: Marxism College, Economics College, Management College, Law School, China Community College (formerly Ethnology and Sociology College) and Education Science and Technology College.

School of Physical Education, School of Life Science and Engineering, School of Foreign Languages, School of Journalism and Communication, School of Music, School of Dance, School of Fine Arts, School of History and Culture, School of Mathematics and Computer, School of Electrical Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering, School of Life Science and Engineering, School of Preparatory Education.

College of Continuing Education (Cadre Training College), Department of Language and Literature of China and Department of Medicine have 72 undergraduate majors, covering economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, management, art, etc. 1 1 categories.