Located in Xining City, the capital of Qinghai Province, Qinghai Normal University (hereinafter referred to as "Qinghai Normal University") was founded in 1956 and initially named Qinghai Normal College. It was upgraded to Qinghai Normal University in 1958 and renamed Qinghai Normal University in 1984. After 1997, Qinghai Institute of education, Qinghai Normal College for nationalities, Qinghai bank school and Qinghai water conservancy school were merged one after another to form a new Qinghai Normal University.The university is a doctoral degree awarding unit, a national Tibetan Chinese bilingual talent training base, a national pilot college for training high-level athletes, a national social sports instructor training base, a social work professional talent training base of the Ministry of civil affairs, an examiners of the national Chinese language proficiency test (HSK), a selected unit of "Yangtze River scholars and innovation team plan" of the Ministry of education, and a member of China Education and Research Institute Scientific research computer network is the main node University of Qinghai Province, CALIS Qinghai provincial literature and information service center, one of the 50 universities with typical employment experience of graduates in China, the National Model University of deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education reform, the selected unit of excellent teacher training plan of the Ministry of education, and the selected unit of national new engineering research and practice project Provincial key universities with bachelor's degree qualifications are supported by Beijing Normal University and other universities.As of May 2020, the university has two campuses in the West and north of the city, covering a total area of nearly 1500 mu; 19 colleges; 3 first-class discipline doctoral degree authorization points, 12 second-class discipline doctoral degree authorization points, 17 first-class discipline master's degree authorization points, 102 second-class discipline master's degree authorization points, 10 professional master's degree authorization points; 60 undergraduate majors; 1290 teaching staff; and 10 professional master's degree authorization points; There are 1852 junior college students, 10755 undergraduates, 1917 postgraduates, 147 doctoral students, 40 international students and 3333 correspondence students.