Lanzhou University is introduced as follows:

Lanzhou University is a national key university directly under People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Ministry of Education, and is jointly established by the State Bureau of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense and the Ministry of Education. It was rated as "Double First Class", "985 Project" and "2 1 1 Project", and was selected as "Everest Plan" and "Strong Project".

"11/plan", outstanding legal talents education and training plan, outstanding doctoral education and training plan, outstanding agricultural and forestry talents education and training plan, national undergraduate innovation experiment plan, national high-level university postgraduate plan, new engineering research and practice project, and China government's scholarship for foreign students coming to China.

National model universities for deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education reform, the first batch of universities with the right to award bachelor's degree, master's degree and doctor's degree, and the first batch of universities to establish postdoctoral research mobile stations, are the Sino-Russian comprehensive university alliance, the independent auditing unit of degree authorization and the governing unit of China Artificial Intelligence Education Association.

The school was founded in 1909, and its predecessor was Gansu Law and Politics School established during the New Deal in the late Qing Dynasty. 1928 extended to Lanzhou Sun Yat-sen University; 1946 was named National Lanzhou University. 1952 was identified as one of the four comprehensive universities in China.

Postgraduate education begins at1954; 200 1 The Ministry of Education and the Gansu Provincial Government signed a provincial and ministerial key construction agreement; In 2002 and 2004, the former Gansu Grassland Ecology Institute and Lanzhou Medical College were merged into Lanzhou University.

As of February 2023, the school has two campuses, Chengguan and Yuzhong, with a campus area of 3,544.32 mu. There are 46 teaching and research institutions offering 106 undergraduate majors.

There are 2/kloc-0 postdoctoral research stations, 27 first-class doctoral programs, 3 professional doctoral programs, 47 first-class master programs and 24 professional master programs. There are 20 170 undergraduates, 3958 postgraduates and 422 doctoral students. There are 2934 teaching and research personnel.