Built in 1956. The school has formed a complete education system of undergraduate education, postgraduate education, international education, adult education and vocational education. Its disciplines cover philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, management, art, etc. 10, and it has become a provincial key university with coordinated development of arts and sciences, normal universities, plateau areas and ethnic characteristics.

The school is a doctoral degree awarding unit, a national civilized campus, a national Tibetan-Chinese bilingual talent training base, a national pilot college for training high-level athletes, a national social sports instructor training base, an examiner of the National Chinese Proficiency Test (HSK), an outstanding teacher training project unit of the Ministry of Education, and a selected unit of the Changjiang Scholars Innovation Team of the Ministry of Education. It is qualified to recommend outstanding fresh graduates to study for master's degree without examination.