The school, formerly known as Dali Medical College and Dali Normal College, was founded in 1978. 200 1 10 With the approval of the Ministry of Education, Dali Medical College and Dali Teachers College were merged to form Dali College, and Dali Industrial School and Yunnan Radio and TV University Dali Branch were merged into our school. In 2003, it was approved as a master's degree awarding unit. On April 29th, 20 15, the school was officially renamed Dali College. 202 1, approved as a doctoral degree awarding unit.
The school is located in Dali, a central city in western Yunnan. The campus covers a total area of more than 2,300 mu, and the total construction area of the school building is about 550,000 square meters. There are two campuses: Gucheng and Shimonoseki. The campus is full of green grass and flowers, and is known as "the university in the mountains and rivers and the scenery in the university".
The school has 17 teaching colleges, 2 directly affiliated hospitals (Grade III A hospitals) and 8 non-directly affiliated hospitals. There are 62 undergraduate majors, 4 first-class disciplines, 33 two disciplines master's degree programs and 3 master's degree programs. The school has more than 7000 full-time students/kloc-0, and more than 30000 continuing education students. Full-time teachers 1069, including 493 with associate senior or above titles and 45 professors 145; There are more than 700 teachers with master's degree or above. At present, there are more than 70 experts and scholars, such as "Changjiang Scholars", experts who have made outstanding contributions to the country, leading talents in philosophy and social sciences of the "Ten Thousand Talents Program" of the Central Organization Department, national cultural experts and "four batches" of talents, candidates for the national 100 million talents project, winners of the "New Century Excellent Talents Support Program" of the Ministry of Education, and Yunling scholars.