Guizhou University for Nationalities (GZUN) was set up in 1951 and merged into Guizhou University in 1959. In 1974, GZUN gained the approval of the State Council for re-establishment and then began to recruit students in 1977.

GZUN is located in the beautiful Huaxi District of Guiyang city, a scenic spot in Guizhou Province known as a Pearl of Southwest China. The campus covers a total area of 883,103 m² , including teaching buildings , students’ dormitories and a large library which holds 1,564,000 volumes . GZUN has Computer and Network Center and Modern Education Center which are equipped with 2359 computers for teaching. It also has one lecture hall, 43 multi-media classrooms, 22 language labs, one TV station for teaching purposes and one English radio station.

GZUN is the only one university for nationalities, a provincial public key university and an important base of higher education for various ethnic groups, especially ethnic minorities in Guizhou. GZUN consists of 19 colleges (department) (College of Literature and Broadcasting, Law School , College of Public Administration , College of Economic Administration , College of Tourism , College of Foreign Languages , College of Ethnic Cultures , College of Social Development , College of Fine Arts , College of Music & Dance , College of Mathematics & Computer Science , College of Physics & Electronic Information Science , College of Chemistry & Environment Science , College of Physical & Health Education , College of Prep-Education , College of Humanities and Sciences , College of Adult-Education ) , Dept. of Construction Eneering , and 3 public-courses teaching departments ( Max-Leninism Teaching Dept. , Computer and Network Center and Modern Education Center ) . They are subdivided into 6 majors for master degree and 43 majors for bachelor degree. The university has 6 province-level key majors and 8 university key majors.
GZUN accepts students from 31 provinces all over the country. The student body numbers 8786 on campus till September, 2007. With the adult education students included.

GZUN has a faculty of 1084, including 94 professors, 177 associate professors, 10 experts with Special Allowance from the State Council and 6 experts from the Provincial Government of Guizhou, more than 34 leading experts of majors and 20 young academic models.

GZUN pays attention to scientific research. There are scientific research institutions such as Ethnic Groups Research Center of Guizhou Province (research base of social science of Guizhou Province), Ethnology Research Institute of Guizhou Province, Ethnic Culture and Art Research Institute of Guizhou Province, Southwest Yelang Culture Research Institute, Ethnic Economy Research Institute of Guizhou Province, Southeast Nuo Culture Research Institute, Shui Character Research Institute , etc. The University has made a great achievement on the scientific research .A great number of papers have been published in authoritative and core journals, some of which are included in SCI and EI. Some research results of GZUN have gained nationwide influence and some provincial or ministerial awards have been won.

GZUN keeps paying great attention to international academic exchange and has established academic cooperation relationships with California State University at Fresno, the U.S.A., Northwestern Polytechnic University, the U.S.A., Sangmyung University, Handong Global University, Sunlin College and Jeonju University, Korea. Based on that, the universities exchange scholars and students. GZUN has engaged teachers and scholars for teaching and lecture tours from America, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Norway, Holland and Singapore. GZUN also sends its scholars to foreign countries such as America , Britain , Japan , Holland , Singapore , Australia , New Zealand , Norway , Finland , Korea for further studies and academic exchanges . It has also enrolled a number of foreign students studying the Chinese language and minority cultures.

English site at http://www.gznc.edu.cn/jgsz/wsb/en/index.htm