The predecessor of Ningxia Medical University is Ningxia Medical College, which was founded in 1958.
The school is a university approved by the Ministry of Education, the Health and Wellness Committee and the People's Government of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. There are more than 5,600 teaching staff and medical staff (including affiliated hospitals directly under the Central Government), including 905 full-time teachers and 723 people with associate senior titles or above. Double-hired academicians 1 person, doctoral supervisors 5 1 person, and master supervisors 660 people.
There are 9293 full-time students, including doctoral and master students 1985 and 323 international students. There are two campuses, Salt Lake and Shuang Yi, covering an area of *** 1700 mu. There are 13 teaching institutions, 13 teaching and research institutions, 12 affiliated hospitals, 20 teaching hospitals, more than 70 practice hospitals and practice teaching bases.
The school has three disciplines of medicine, science and management, and 22 undergraduate majors, among which clinical medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, preventive medicine, nursing and pharmacy are national specialties, and 9 are autonomous regional specialties. There are 2 national-level teaching teams, and autonomous-level teaching teams 1 1. There are 2 national experimental teaching demonstration centers and 9 autonomous experimental teaching demonstration centers.