Qinghai University for Nationalities belongs to a higher level. Qinghai University for Nationalities was established in1949 65438+February 65438+February. It is the first institution of higher learning on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the first institute for nationalities in New China. On September 1956, it was officially named Qinghai University for Nationalities by the State Council, and in September 1979, the school enrolled postgraduates majoring in language, literature and national history. 198 1 was awarded the first batch of master's degrees by the State Council Academic Degrees Committee. It is the first batch of universities in China to award master's degrees after the reform and opening up, and it is also the earliest unit in Qinghai Province to carry out degree and postgraduate education. Therefore, Qinghai University for Nationalities belongs to a higher level. The school attaches great importance to the construction of first-class disciplines and first-class majors. Humanities and social sciences have always had an advantageous position in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and the construction of science and engineering disciplines such as new energy, new materials, salt lake chemical industry and Tibetan medicine, which are connected with Qinghai's characteristic advantageous industries and pillar industries, has formed scale and characteristics.