Lanzhou Vocational College of Resources and Environment offers the following majors: atmospheric detection technology, hotel management and digital operation, furniture art design, nonferrous metal intelligent metallurgy technology, engineering survey technology, water conservancy and hydropower engineering technology, computer network technology, industrial process automation technology, atmospheric detection technology, mine geology, applied chemistry technology and mine construction engineering technology.

Lanzhou Vocational College of Resources and Environment is a provincial public undergraduate higher vocational college, which integrates the running resources of Changqing College of Lanzhou University of Finance and Economics and Lanzhou Vocational College of Resources and Environment, and was approved by the Ministry of Education on May 3, 20 14. The school was formerly known as Lanzhou Meteorological School (founded in 195 1) and Gansu Coal Workers College (founded in 1984), which belongs to Gansu Coal Industry Bureau. In 2004, with the record of the Ministry of Education and the approval of the Gansu provincial government, the two universities merged and rebuilt into the first general higher vocational college of resources and environment in western China. In February, 20021,with the approval of Gansu provincial government, Gansu provincial water conservancy and hydropower school (founded in 195 1), a national key technical secondary school, was integrated into Lanzhou Vocational and Technical College of Resources and Environment.