Yunnan Minzu University Located in Kunming City, the university is a comprehensive provincial key university jointly built by the Ministry of education, the State Commission for Ethnic Affairs and the people's Government of Yunnan Province. It has been selected as the "excellent legal talent education and training plan" of the Ministry of education, the bilingual talent training base of the State Commission for ethnic affairs, and the receiving college of Chinese government scholarship for foreign students in China, and is the doctoral degree awarding unit.Founded on August 1, 1951, Yunnan University for nationalities, formerly known as Yunnan University for nationalities, is one of the earliest Ethnic Universities in the people's Republic of China. It was renamed Yunnan University for Nationalities in April 2003.According to the official website of the University in May 2020, the University covers an area of 2550 mu, with a building area of 970000 square meters. It has more than 2 million paper books and nearly 1.3 million e-books. It has 26 colleges, 94 undergraduate majors, 3 post doctoral research stations, 2 first-class doctoral programs, 16 first-class master programs, 103 second-class master programs and 16 professional master programs; There are 1823 teaching staff, including 1389 full-time teachers, 29024 full-time students, including 25187 undergraduates, 2783 masters and 85 doctors.