Lanzhou University of Arts and Science, located in Lanzhou City, Gansu Province, is a provincial full-time undergraduate college formed by the merger of Gansu Education College and Gansu Union University. It belongs to the first batch of pilot colleges for transformation and development in Gansu Province, and is the training base for non-genetic population of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. It was selected as an innovative experimental project of the integration of production and education in colleges and universities, and the data is the national "Hundred Schools Project".

According to the admission batches of the school in various provinces, it belongs to the second batch of undergraduate admissions in Gansu Province and other provinces, so Lanzhou University of Arts and Sciences can be regarded as two institutions.