Yunnan Normal University was founded in 1938. Its predecessor was the Teachers College of National Southwest Associated University, which was co-founded by Peking University, Tsinghua University and Nankai University. 1946 After the National The National SouthWest Associated University was demobilized and returned to the North, the Teachers College of the General Assembly was independently established in Kunming and named as the National Kunming Teachers College. After liberation, it was named Kunming Normal College. 1April, 1984, with the approval of the Yunnan Provincial People's Government, it was renamed Yunnan Normal University. 1999 2 Yunnan Normal University merged with Yunnan Institute of Education and Yunnan Institute of Physical Education and reorganized Yunnan Normal University. After years of development, today's Yunnan Normal University has inherited and carried forward the motto of "perseverance" and the spirit of "patriotism, democracy and science" of National Southwest Associated University, and has formed a new school spirit of "being an official with excellent learning". Since its establishment more than 60 years ago, it has trained more than100000 talents for the country, and is known as "the cradle of teachers on the red soil plateau".

Yunnan Normal University is the only provincial key normal university in Yunnan Province, located in Kunming, the provincial capital. Formerly known as Teachers College of National Southwest Associated University, it was founded in 1938. At present, it is the training base for middle school English teachers in the southwest of UNESCO, one of the two universities in Yunnan Province with the right to enroll students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, one of the four bases for training Chinese teachers in Southeast Asian countries, and one of the 10 key universities designated by the Ministry of Education to support Chinese teaching in neighboring countries. It is also the establishment of Yunnan teacher training center, basic education research center and continuing education center for teachers and cadres.

The school atmosphere is very good, at least in Yunnan Province, it is a very good university.