1956, the Qinghai Provincial Party Committee and the provincial government decided to establish Qinghai Teachers College. 65438-0957, Qinghai Teachers College was formally established, offering four majors: physics, chemistry, history and geography. 65438-0958 began to recruit undergraduates, adding three specialties, namely education, biology and politics and religion.

1958 In July, Qinghai Provincial Party Committee and Provincial People's Government decided to expand Qinghai Normal University into Qinghai Normal University, and on August 7, Qinghai Normal University was formally established. 1960 Xining Normal School merged with Qinghai Institute of Education to form the Teacher Training Department of Qinghai Normal College, and then the Correspondence Department. 196 1 Qinghai Art School was merged into Qinghai Normal University and the Art Department of Qinghai Normal University was established. 1962, Qinghai Normal University was merged into Qinghai Institute for Nationalities and changed to the Normal Department of Qinghai Institute for Nationalities. 1964, restore Qinghai Normal University. 1965, the Tibetan Department of Qinghai University for Nationalities was merged into the Tibetan Department of Qinghai Normal University, and Qinghai Normal College and Qinghai No.2 Normal School were established respectively.

1984 In March, Qinghai Normal University was renamed Qinghai Normal University. 1993 the State Council academic degree office approved basic mathematics and ancient history of China as new master's degree awarding points. 65438-0997, the former Qinghai Normal University and the former Qinghai Institute of Education merged to form a new Qinghai Normal University. In 2000, Qinghai Teachers College for Nationalities was merged into Qinghai Normal University. 200 1, the former water conservancy technical secondary school of Qinghai University was transferred to Qinghai Normal University. In 2003, it was approved as the third batch of national enrollment units for master's degree in education. In 2004, the former bank of qinghai School was transferred to Qinghai Normal University.

In 2008, institutions of higher learning approved by the Ministry of Education to carry out the recommendation of exemption for postgraduate students obtained the qualification of exemption for postgraduate students. In 2009, the school was rated as an excellent school-running unit for training master's degree in education by the expert group of the State Council Academic Degrees Committee. 20 10 was approved by the State Council Academic Degrees Committee and Qinghai Provincial Government, and it was determined as the project construction doctoral degree awarding unit. In 20 13, it was approved as a first-class discipline and became a doctoral degree awarding unit. 20141May was selected as an excellent teacher training plan.