Datong University in Shanxi Province has specialties such as educational technology, elementary education, English, Russian, economic statistics, pre-school education, business English, chemistry, translation, cultural relics protection technology, mechanical design and manufacture and automation, functional materials, network and new media, psychology and statistics.

Shanxi Datong University, referred to as "Datong University" or "Datong University", is located in the famous historical and cultural city of Datong. It is a multi-disciplinary university in Shanxi Province, the first batch of pilot universities of "Excellent Doctoral Education and Training Program" in China, and the only university in Shanxi Province (Shanxi Provincial Department of Education, Datong Municipal People's Government).

Selected into the School Planning and Construction Development Center of the Ministry of Education, the National College Students' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program, the "133 1 Project" in Shanxi Province, the first batch of application-oriented transformation pilot universities in Shanxi Province, and the first batch of high-level application-oriented undergraduate universities in Shanxi Province? , the first batch of grassroots legislative contact points of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Congress, the municipal local legislative research and consultation base, and Phoenix Education.

The cooperative institutions of the project "Demonstration Base for Innovative Application of Digital Media with Integration of Industry and Education in Colleges and Universities" are the main members of the National Universities of Applied Sciences (College) Alliance, the Shanxi Teachers' Education Alliance, the Shanxi Higher Medical Education Resource Alliance and the "Wu Da Zhang" Higher Education Alliance, and the founding member of the Datong All-Science Alliance New Energy Industry Technology Research Institute.