According to official website, the number of Yunnan University is 985,211. Yunnan University, located in Kunming, Yunnan Province, is a national key university jointly established by the Ministry of Education and Yunnan Province. It is a national "double-first-class" construction university, the "2 1 1" project, the basic capacity building project of one university in one province and universities in the central and western regions, and a national first-class university supported by Yunnan Province.

As of June 2023, Yunnan University has two campuses, Chenggong and Donglu, covering an area of 4,367 mu, with a building area of 1.33 million square meters and a collection of more than 4 million books. 28 colleges and 84 undergraduate majors; At present, there are 4 postdoctoral research mobile stations 14, 22 first-class discipline doctoral degree authorization points, professional doctoral degree authorization points 1, 42 first-class discipline master degree authorization points and 26 professional master degree authorization points.