Yunnan University ranks 80th in the soft science edition university ranking (2023), 56th in the China Alumni Association university ranking (2023) and116th in the USNews Chinese University ranking (2023).

Yunnan University, located in Kunming City, Yunnan Province, China, is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education and jointly built by the Ministry of Education and Yunnan Province, and ranks among the national key construction universities such as "Double First Class", "2 1 1 Project" and "One University in One Province".