Guizhou University, or Guizhou University for short, was founded in Guiyang City, capital of Guizhou Province, in 1902. It is a world-class national "double-class" discipline-building university. The Ministry of Education and the People's Government of Guizhou Province have cooperated to build universities, and the national "211 Project" key construction universities. Guizhou Province is a key comprehensive university, and has been selected as an excellent legal personnel education and training plan. Planning, Excellent Agriculture and Forestry Talents Education and Training Plan, Excellent Engineer Education and Training Plan, Ministry of Education Student Demonstration Base in China, Ministry of Education Foreign Aid Base, Ministry of Science and Technology International Science and Technology Cooperation Base, Chinese Government Scholarship Receiving College for Overseas Students, Confucius Institute Scholarship College, Ministry of Education "2011 Program" Cooperative Innovation Center Leading Universities, National Deepening Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Demonstration universities of education reform were selected as the "Comprehensive Strength Promotion Project of Central and Western Universities" of the Ministry of Education and became one of the 14 high-level universities that the Ministry of Education has focused on in the western region. They are members of the Union of Central and Western Universities and one of the earliest universities founded in China. They are supported by Zhejiang University.
Guizhou University went through the period of Guizhou University Hall, Provincial Guizhou University, National Guizhou Agricultural and Industrial College and National Guizhou University, and was named Guizhou University in October 1950. In August 1997, it merged with Guizhou Agricultural College and other universities. In August 2004, it merged with Guizhou University of Technology. In December 2012, the Ministry of Education and Guizhou Provincial People's Government jointly built colleges and universities. April 2016 was listed as the national "one province, one school" key support for the construction of universities. In November 2017, he was awarded the title of the first National Civilized Campus.
As of March 2018, the school covers an area of 33,833.29 mu; it has 40 colleges; there are 31,417 full-time undergraduates and 8716 full-time postgraduates; there are 3958 faculty members, including 2842 full-time teachers, 490 professors, 1121 associate professors, 902 doctorates and 876 master's degrees; there are more than 368,000 paper documents in the library and 2.1 million Chinese and foreign electronic books in the library. 。