The ace majors of Yunnan University are law, business administration, tourism management, chemistry, history, archival science, ethnology, software engineering, ecology, statistics, Burmese, Chinese language and literature, journalism, communication engineering, computer science and technology, political science and administration, and public management.

Yunnan University, founded in 1922, is a private Donglu University. 1930, changed to provincial Donglu University. 1934 was renamed Yunnan University. 1938 changed to National Yunnan University. 1946, Encyclopedia Britannica listed Yunnan University as one of the most influential universities in the world in 15.

1950 was named Yunnan University. From 65438 to 0958, Yunnan University was placed under the management of Yunnan Province by the Central Ministry of Higher Education. 65438-0978 Yunnan University was identified by the State Council as one of the 88 national key universities. 1996 was included in the first batch of national "2 1 1 project" key construction universities. 1999, Yunnan University of Political Science and Law merged into Yunnan University.

As of March 2022, the school has two campuses, Chenggong and Donglu, covering an area of 4,363.64 mu, with a building area of 1 10,000 square meters and a library of 3.82 million books. There are 27 colleges, 10 research institutions, 1 0 affiliated hospitals, graduate schools and 82 undergraduate majors.

22 first-level disciplines, 1 professional doctor, 42 first-level disciplines and 26 professional masters; At present, there are 3023 faculty members, including undergraduates 17000, postgraduates 12000 and doctoral students 1500.