Northwest University for Nationalities is located in Lanzhou, an important node city of the Belt and Road Initiative. It is a university for nationalities, subordinate to the State Ethnic Affairs Commission, a public institution jointly established by the State Ethnic Affairs Commission, the Ministry of Education, the State Ethnic Affairs Commission and the People's Government of Gansu Province, and a high-level university construction unit determined by Gansu Province.

The school has the right to award bachelor's degrees, master's degrees and doctor's degrees. There are 25 teaching and scientific research units, with disciplines and specialties covering economy, law, education, literature, history, science, industry, agriculture, medicine, management and art1/.

Running strength of Northwest University for Nationalities

The school has 1 national outstanding contribution collective to the western development, 1 national Huang Danian-style teacher team, 1 national advanced collective of professional and technical talents, 1 national teaching team, 65,438 candidates for the National Million Talents Project and national model workers.

There are 27 provincial and ministerial key disciplines. Ethnology is the dominant discipline, while China language and literature, computer science, national information technology and bioengineering are the characteristic disciplines in the construction of "double first-class" disciplines in Gansu Province. There are 4 national characteristic majors, 27 national and provincial first-class undergraduate majors, and 2 1 provincial first-class undergraduate majors. It is a pilot unit of national comprehensive professional reform and national excellent agricultural and forestry personnel training mode reform.

Northwest University for Nationalities-School Introduction