Liaoning University is a provincial comprehensive university with disciplines of literature, history, philosophy, economics, law, science, engineering, management, medicine and art. It is a national key construction institution of "2 1 1 Project" and a world-class discipline construction institution. The school has three campuses, namely Chongshan Campus in Shenyang, Puhe Campus in Shenyang and Vu Thang Campus in Liaoyang. The school covers an area of 2,222 mu with a building area of 650,000 square meters.

There are more than 26,000 students in the school, including undergraduates 1.8 million, 7,400 graduate students and nearly 880 doctoral students. There are 2599 faculty members, including full-time teachers 1550. The school has 27 colleges and 62 research institutes; There are 76 undergraduate majors, 20 national first-class undergraduate majors and 4 provincial first-class undergraduate majors.

The school's public service system is relatively perfect, including library, school history museum, archives, history museum, natural museum and so on. The library has a total area of 40,000 square meters and a collection of 3.63 million books, including more than 800 rare books of ancient books. It is a national key protection unit for ancient books, with more than 2,000 cultural relics and 6,543.8+0.6 million biological specimens collected in history museums and natural museums.

The school actively promotes international education, and has successively established two Chinese-foreign cooperative education institutions, established long-term and stable cooperative relations with 138 institutions of higher learning and research institutions in 33 countries, and trained more than18,000 long-term international students and more than 4,900 short-term international students. Carefully build the brand of Confucius Institute, and jointly build Confucius Institute with Irkutsk State University of Russia and Dakar University of Senegal.