Yunnan University for Nationalities, located in Kunming, Yunnan Province, is a comprehensive provincial-level key university approved by the Ministry of Education, the State Ethnic Affairs Commission and the Yunnan Provincial People's Government. It is a first-class discipline construction university in Yunnan, and has been selected into the "Excellent Legal Talents Education and Training Program" of the Ministry of Education, the bilingual talents training base of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission, and the scholarship receiving institution of the China Municipal Government for international students in China. It is a doctoral degree awarding unit.

Yunnan University for Nationalities was founded in August 195 1, formerly known as Yunnan University for Nationalities, and it is one of the earliest institutions of higher learning for nationalities founded by the people of China. In April 2003, it was renamed Yunnan University for Nationalities.

In March 2023, the school official website showed that the school has two campuses: Lianhua Campus and Yuhua Campus, covering an area of 2,550 mu, with a construction area of 8 1.95 million square meters; There are more than 2.4 million paper books and nearly 6.5438+0.3 million e-books. There are 26 colleges and 76 undergraduate majors. There are two postdoctoral mobile stations,

There are 2 doctoral programs in the first-level discipline, 6 master programs in the first-level discipline 16, master programs in two disciplines 1 1 (excluding master programs in two disciplines covered by the first-level discipline), and professional master programs 16; There are currently 0/.770 faculty members and 33,344 students, including 27,244 undergraduates, 3,765 postgraduates, 65,438 doctoral students, 3,265,438 international students, 32,365,438 ethnic minority college preparatory students and Shangri-La junior college students.