
Qinghai Minzu University was founded in December 1949. It is one of the earliest universities in Qinghai and one of the earliest universities for Nationalities in New China. It is one of the first units to obtain the right to grant master's degree in China. The school has successively gone through the school running stages of Qinghai youth cadre training class, Qinghai People's public school, Qinghai national public school and Qinghai Institute for nationalities. In April 2009, it was renamed Qinghai Minzu University . Since its establishment, the university has always adhered to the socialist direction of running a school, shouldered the dual missions of the party's educational work and ethnic work, implemented the fundamental task of Building Morality and cultivating people, served the national strategic needs and the development of ethnic areas, worked hard with the motherland, developed with the times and shared the destiny with Qinghai, and wrote a magnificent chapter in the reform and development of higher education in Qinghai.
青海民族大學創建于1949年12月,是青海建立最早的高校和新中國建校最早的民族院校之一、全國首批獲得碩士學位授予權單位。學校先后歷經青海省青年干部訓練班、青海省人民公學、青海省民族公學、青海民族學院等辦學階段,2009年4月更名為青海民族大學。
建校以來,學校始終堅持社會主義辦學方向,肩負黨的教育工作和民族工作雙重使命,落實立德樹人根本任務,服務國家戰略需要和民族地區發展,與祖國共奮進、與時代共發展、與青海共命運,譜寫了青海高等教育改革發展氣壯山河的精彩華章。