According to the public information of the Ministry of Education, three universities in Anhui were selected for the second round of double-class construction universities, including Anhui University, so Anhui University is a double-class university, but the double-class construction disciplines are only 1.

Anhui University is located in Hefei, Anhui Province. It is a university built by the Ministry of Education and the People's Government of Anhui Province, a university built by the State Bureau of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense and the People's Government of Anhui Province, a national "double-class" university and a national "21/engineering" university; Selected into the national "20 1 1 plan" and the excellent legal talents education and training plan.

National construction of high-level university graduate programs, new engineering research and practice projects, national college students' cultural quality education base, national Chinese education base, demonstration base of the Ministry of Education for studying in China, scholarship receiving institutions of the China Municipal Government for overseas students, national demonstration university for deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education reform, and national innovation experiment plan for college students.

The national college students' innovation and entrepreneurship training plan, the national civilized campus, the designated universities selected by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the pilot universities in Anhui Province to systematically promote the construction of comprehensive innovation and reform pilot zones, and the "11plan" discipline innovation and intelligence introduction base; He is a core member of the Education and Research Zone of Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center; It is a key comprehensive university in Anhui Province.

The school was founded in April 1928 in Anqing, then the provincial capital. During the period of 1958, Anhui University was rebuilt on the basis of Hefei College and the former Physics Department of Anhui University. On September 16, President Mao Zedong wrote the name of the school.