Yunnan University for Nationalities is a comprehensive university to train senior professionals of all ethnic groups, and a provincial-level key university determined by the Ministry of Education, the State Ethnic Affairs Commission and the Yunnan Provincial People's Government. The school was founded in 1 951August1,formerly known as Yunnan University for Nationalities. It is one of the earliest institutions of higher learning for nationalities founded by the people of China. In April 2003, it was renamed Yunnan University for Nationalities, and it has been 7 1 year since its establishment.

Yunnan University for Nationalities is a comprehensive university with complete disciplines and distinctive school-running characteristics, covering philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, management, art and other disciplines 10, forming a discipline pattern featuring ethnology, sociology, national language and literature, Southeast Asia and South Asia language and culture, with equal emphasis on arts and sciences and coordinated development of multiple disciplines.