First, school profile:
Northwest University for Nationalities is located in Lanzhou City, Gansu Province. It is a full-time undergraduate college directly under the State Ethnic Affairs Commission of the People's Republic of China. It was jointly established by the Ministry of Education of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission, China Academy of Sciences and Gansu Provincial People's Government. It is the first ethnic college established after the founding of the People's Republic of China and a key plan for ethnic minorities.
The school was founded in Yan 'an University for Nationalities on 194 1 and later merged into Yan 'an University. 1949 Yan 'an University was renamed Northwest Renmin University, 1950 was transformed into the Third Department of Northwest People's Revolutionary University in Lanzhou, 1950 was formally established in August.
Second, the teaching conditions:
As of May 2023, the school has Northwest Xincun Campus and Yuzhong Campus, affiliated middle schools, affiliated primary schools and affiliated kindergartens, with a total campus area of 1776 mu and a total construction area of 770,000 square meters. The library has more than 4.08 million books, and the total value of teaching and research instruments and equipment is about 500 million yuan. There are 25 teaching and research institutions and 73 undergraduate majors.
The school has 1 post-doctoral research station, 2 first-level disciplines authorized by doctoral degrees, 3 first-level disciplines authorized by doctoral degrees in two disciplines, 16 first-level disciplines authorized by master's degrees in two disciplines, 10 first-level disciplines authorized by master's degrees, 2 interdisciplinary disciplines authorized by master's degrees, and professional master's degrees 13, with more than 30,000 teachers and students.
Third, cooperation and exchanges:
From 20 1 1, Sichuan University provides counterpart support to Northwest University for Nationalities. In 20 16, Sichuan University and Sichuan University formally signed an agreement on joint undergraduate training to recruit students majoring in Chinese international education and Russian, and successively signed agreements with Malaysian National University, Kuala Lumpur Jianshe University and Islamic University of Science and Technology to establish inter-school cooperation.
In 20 18, the school * * * received 24 international students from 13 countries and regions, including Korea, Ghana, Nigeria, Mexico, Liberia, Cameroon, Pakistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Turkey, Yemen, Hong Kong and Taiwan Province Province.