There are 19 postdoctoral research stations authorized by doctoral degrees, namely: ethnology, mathematics, physics, chemistry, geography, atmospheric science, biology, applied economics, Marxist theory, China language and literature, China history, ecology, mechanics, computer science and technology, animal husbandry, materia medica, clinical medicine, public management and so on.

Lanzhou University is a national key comprehensive university directly under the Ministry of Education, and it is one of the key construction universities in the "985 Project" and "21/project". The school was founded on 1909. Its predecessor was the Gansu Law and Politics School established during the New Deal in the late Qing Dynasty. It marks the beginning of modern higher education in Gansu and opens the precedent of higher education in northwest China. Lanzhou University has a complete range of disciplines with distinctive features, covering 12 disciplines.

As of July 2008, the campus area of the school was 3800. 137 mu, with 2 campuses and 3 affiliated hospitals. There are 37 teaching departments, 100 undergraduate majors, 45 first-class disciplines authorized by master's degree, 23 first-class disciplines authorized by doctor's degree, 18 types authorized by master's degree, 1 types authorized by doctor's degree, and 19 post-doctoral research stations. Undergraduate students 195 10, graduate students 10773, doctoral students 2 180, with 3,590 on-the-job faculty members, including 2,028 teaching and research personnel.