1, discipline construction: the school has always adhered to the school purpose of "facing ethnic minorities and ethnic areas and serving the economic and social development of ethnic areas" and offered 68 undergraduate majors in 10 discipline; There is a postdoctoral mobile station for ethnology research; It has a first-class doctoral degree authorization point in ethnology and 6 doctoral programs in 2 disciplines; There are 19 academic master's degree authorization points, 80 academic two disciplines master's degree authorization points and 8 master's degree authorization points (10 professional fields). Authorized disciplines cover all 12 disciplines except military science, including philosophy, law, literature, history, economics, management, education, engineering, science, medicine, agriculture, art and so on.
2. The school has 23 national and provincial top-quality courses, 5 national characteristic specialty construction sites, dominant disciplines in Hubei universities 1 one, 2 characteristic disciplines in Hubei universities 14, provincial key disciplines14, 7 provincial brand specialties, national and provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers 10, and provincial and ministerial scientific research institutions (laboratories) In 2008, the school became the awarding unit of "recommending outstanding fresh graduates to study for master's degree without examination". The school has 48 research institutes (centers) such as minority economy, women's books, Tujia nationality, applied chemistry, plasma and biomedical engineering.