Dali College is located at No.2 Hongsheng Road, Dali Town, Dali City, Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, with the postal code of 67 1003. Dali University is an ordinary institution of higher learning jointly established by provinces and states. Its predecessor was Dali Medical College and Dali Normal College, which was founded in 1978. 200 1 The two universities merged to form Dali College. Master's degree was awarded in 2003, and it was renamed Dali College on 20 15. After 42 years of accumulation, the school has developed into a comprehensive university with medical and national cultural characteristics, interdisciplinary integration and multi-level coordinated development. It is the earliest university in Yunnan Province that is established in a non-capital city and has the right to award master's degrees. It is also the first batch of new doctoral degree awarding units at the provincial level.

The school has 17 teaching colleges and 10 affiliated hospitals. At present, there are 69 undergraduate majors, 6 master's degree authorization points in first-class disciplines, 43 master's degree authorization points in two disciplines and 7 master's degree authorization points. In the past five years, the school has successively won more than 200 projects from the National Science Foundation, the National Social Science Foundation and the Humanities and Social Sciences Project of the Ministry of Education. Among them, the number of religious education projects of the National Social Science Fund is 20 19, which ranks with China Academy of Social Sciences 1. He has published more than academic papers 100 in top international journals such as Nature Communication, and won more than 30 teaching and scientific research achievement awards at or above the provincial and ministerial level, such as the second prize of national teaching achievement and the first prize of scientific and technological progress in Yunnan Province. Undergraduate and graduate students have won more than 50 prizes in various disciplines competitions in China.