According to Baidu map query, Guiyang University is located at No.0/03 Jianlong East Road, Nanming District, Guiyang City, Guizhou Province, and is one of the full-time ordinary undergraduate schools approved by the Ministry of Education. Construction began in May 2004, and in June 2004 1 1 was included in the plan of the Ministry of Western Development of the State Council and the Ministry of Education to support western universities, with counterpart support from Tsinghua University.

By April 2023, the planned campus area of the school is 1350 mu, the planned building area is 564,500 square meters, the total value of teaching and research instruments and equipment is 202 million yuan, and there are more than 654.38 million Chinese and foreign paper books and more than 2 million electronic books.