Northwest Normal University was founded in 1902 with the predecessor of National Beiping Normal University and the predecessor of Shi Jing University Teachers College. Before 1958, Northwest Normal University was one of the six national key normal universities directly under the Ministry of Education. During the first national college adjustment from 65438 to 0958, it was placed under the leadership of Gansu Province. 1985 the Ministry of education established the northwest minority teacher training center, which is directly under the Ministry of education and established in colleges and universities. 1987, the State Council established the "Tibet Teacher Training Center" in schools. There are 66 undergraduate majors (including 9 national specialties), covering philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, management, art and other disciplines 10. daxue.chazidian.com。 The school is the first batch of third-level degree awarding units in the State Council, with 6 post-doctoral research stations, 7 first-level disciplines authorized by doctoral degrees, 50 doctoral degrees authorized by two disciplines, 32 master's degrees authorized by first-level disciplines, 57 master's degrees authorized by two disciplines, and professional master's degrees authorized by kloc-0/1. The school has extensively carried out international academic exchanges and cooperative research, established cooperative exchange relations with more than 20 universities, research institutions and international organizations in more than 40 countries and Hong Kong and Taiwan regions, held more than 50 large-scale international academic conferences, and recruited and trained more than 1 100 foreign students. At present, the school has established two Confucius Institutes in cooperation with Khartoum University in Sultanate and Free International University in Moldova. The school is one of the western 14 universities supported by the state and a key university jointly established by the Gansu Provincial People's Government and the Ministry of Education.