The school was founded in 1956 as a cadre school of politics and law in Gansu Province, which was later merged and changed places several times. It has gone through several stages, such as Gansu Administrative Cadre School, Beiwan May 7th Cadre School, and reconstruction of Gansu Political and Legal Cadre Training School. 1982, Gansu Political and Legal Cadre Training School was officially moved from Beiwan, Jingyuan County to its current site. 1984, Gansu University of Political Science and Law was established to offer general higher education; In 2004, Gansu National Defense Science and Technology Industrial School was merged into Gansu University of Political Science and Law; 2065438+In June 2009, it was renamed Gansu University of Political Science and Law.
As of April 2023, the school has three campuses: Anning West Road Campus, Anning Wanxin Road Campus and Lanzhou New District Campus. The campus covers an area of 1066.59 mu, with a building area of 432,300 square meters. The total value of various teaching and scientific research instruments and equipment is 1.0 1.58 million yuan, including more than/.55 million paper books and 900,000 electronic books. 15 colleges with 40 undergraduate majors; There are 3 master's degree authorization points for first-level disciplines, 9 master's degree authorization points for two disciplines/KLOC-0, and 9 professional master's degree authorization points; Faculty 1020, full-time students 13547, including undergraduate students1kloc-0/645 and graduate students 1762.