Anhui University is located in a famous historical and cultural city, Hefei, the capital of Anhui Province. Hefei has the reputation of "Hometown of the Three Kingdoms, Hometown of Bao Zheng, and the First County in Jianghuai". The school is one of the first universities listed in the world's "double first-class" and the national "2 1 1 project". It is a university jointly established by the People's Government of Anhui Province and the Ministry of Education, and a key comprehensive university in Anhui Province.

The school adheres to the fundamental task of moral education and constantly improves the quality of personnel training.

The school adheres to the direction of running a socialist school, fully implements the Party's educational policy, strives to build a talent training mechanism that integrates arts and sciences, science and engineering, and combines education and research, and strives to cultivate high-quality innovative talents from all walks of life with a sense of social responsibility, humanistic feelings, scientific spirit and international vision to serve national and regional economic and social development.

The school adheres to the road of strengthening the school through scientific research and constantly enhances the strength of scientific and technological innovation. The school has a complete range of disciplines with remarkable comprehensive characteristics, covering science, engineering, literature, history, philosophy, economics, law, management, education, art and other 10 categories, with 2 national key disciplines and 25 provincial key disciplines.