North University for Nationalities, located in Yinchuan City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, is the only ministerial-level university in China established in the minority autonomous region, directly under the State Ethnic Affairs Commission, and is jointly established by the State Ethnic Affairs Commission, the Ministry of Education, the China Academy of Sciences and the People's Government of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, and supported by Hefei University of Technology. It was selected into the first batch of universities in the National College Students' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program, the first batch of new engineering research and practice projects of the Ministry of Education, the first batch of demonstration universities in China to deepen the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education, and the Silk Road University Alliance. The school, formerly known as Northwest Second University for Nationalities, was founded in 1984 and renamed North University for Nationalities in 2008.

By July, 2065438+2008, the school occupied a total area of 1624 mu, with a total construction area of 400,000 square meters. There are 24 second-level teaching departments, offering subjects such as literature, science, engineering, law, history, management, economics, art, teaching and medicine 10, and 73 undergraduate majors. There are 10 master's programs in first-level disciplines, 9 master's programs in first-level disciplines, and doctoral programs 1 one. Provincial and ministerial key disciplines 16. There are 365,438+0 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions, 56 ethnic groups, and more than 26,5438+0,000 master students, undergraduates and preparatory students. Faculty 1332.