The distribution of research places in Lanzhou University is as follows: the average number of research places in 2022 is 15, among which the number of research places in the College of Materials Science and Engineering is the largest, with 30 in 2022, and the number of research places in the College of Art is the least, with 2022 1 person.

Lanzhou University is a national key comprehensive university directly under the Ministry of Education, which has an important strategic position in the national higher education pattern and has an important influence and good reputation at home and abroad. There are two campuses, Chengguan and Yuzhong, with a campus area of 3,544 mu.

The school strives to build a discipline system with complete categories, reasonable structure and distinctive features in accordance with the discipline development idea of "prospering literature, enriching subjects, expanding industries, prospering agriculture and strengthening medicine". It is the first batch of universities in China with the right to award bachelor's, master's and doctor's degrees, and also the first batch of universities to establish postdoctoral research mobile stations.