According to the query of college students' essential network, there are two universities in Lijiang, namely:

1. Lijiang Culture and Tourism College (formerly Yunnan University Tourism and Culture College) is located in Lijiang City, Yunnan Province, which enjoys three laurels of world cultural heritage, world natural heritage and world memory heritage. Founded in 200 1, the school is the first independent college with distinctive school-running characteristics confirmed by the Ministry of Education in 2004. After more than 20 years' construction and development, the school was transformed from an independent college into an independent undergraduate-level private ordinary college with the approval of the Ministry of Education in February 20021.

2. Lijiang Teachers College is a provincial public full-time ordinary university approved by the Ministry of Education, and the only public university in northwest Yunnan. The school has 12 colleges, including Marxism College, Teacher Education College, Preschool Education College, Tourism and Economic Management College, Art College, Applied Technology College, Sports and Health College, Foreign Languages College, Literature and Media College, Mathematics and Information Technology College, Continuing Education College and Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education College, among which 12 colleges are teaching-oriented colleges. Full-time students 9 106.