Can be engaged in Yi language teaching and Yi culture research. Judging from the employment situation in recent years, most graduates of Yi College have chosen grass-roots service as their employment direction. The Yi College of Southwest University for Nationalities has trained more than 2,000 Yi language and literature talents, and a large number of them have become highly regarded experts, scholars, poets, writers, heads of party and government departments, enterprises and institutions. Some alumni traveled across the ocean to study for doctoral degrees in famous foreign universities and became well-known scholars, which had a great international influence.