Qinghai University, referred to as Qingda for short, is located in Xining, the capital of Qinghai Province. The Ministry of Education and the Qinghai Provincial People's Government have jointly established a university, which is a national "world-class discipline construction university", a national "21project" key construction university, and 14 one of the national "comprehensive strength improvement projects for universities in the central and western regions". The pilot universities for the reform of "Excellent Doctor Education and Training Program", "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program" and "Excellent Agricultural and Forestry Talents Education and Training Program", members of the Central and Western University Alliance, and directors of the China University Media Alliance were selected into the National Public Postgraduate Program for Building High-level Universities, New Engineering Research and Practice Project, Western Computer Education Promotion Program, National College Students' Innovation Experiment Program, and National College Students' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program. National model universities for deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education reform, China government scholarship program for overseas students, and key universities such as Tsinghua University, Northwest A&F University, China Geo University, East China University of Science and Technology and beijing university of chemical technology provide counterpart support to universities.
As of April 20 18, there were 15 colleges, including medical college, agriculture and animal husbandry college, chemical engineering college, finance and economics college, mechanical engineering college, water conservancy and electric power college, civil engineering college, ecological and environmental engineering college, Kunlun college, continuing education college, Tibetan medicine college, Marxism college, geological engineering department, computer technology and application department and basic department.