Gansu University for Nationalities is the Northwest University for Nationalities. Northwest University for Nationalities is a public institution with good development. The school has the right to award bachelor's degrees, master's degrees and doctor's degrees. There are 25 teaching and scientific research units, with disciplines and specialties covering economy, law, education, literature, history, science, industry, agriculture, medicine, management and art1/.

Northwest University for Nationalities is a university directly under the central government and the State Ethnic Affairs Commission. It is the first national higher education institution founded after the founding of New China. The school was formerly known as the Third Department of Northwest People's Revolutionary University Lanzhou Branch.

Starting from February 1950, preparations were started based on the "three provinces of Al Qaeda". In August 2008, Northwest University for Nationalities was formally established, with Wang Feng, a proletarian revolutionary of the older generation, as the president.