Universities

Gansu Agricultural University (GAU) is in Anning District, Lanzhou, on the Yellow River. It grew from the National Veterinary College founded in Lanzhou in October 1946. It has 17 colleges; 1 State Key Discipline; 1 Key Discipline of the State Ministry of Agriculture; 13 provincial key disciplines; 5 postdoctoral research stations; 26 PhD programs; 66 master’s programs; 53 bachelor’s programs; and 28 research institutes and labs. Staff and students: 1,500 full-time teachers; about 16,000 undergraduates and 2,000 postgraduates. GAU cooperates with universities and institutes in more than ten countries, including the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Germany, France, Ghana, and Sudan. It offers a GAU President Scholarship for outstanding international students

Lanzhou City University is a full-time undergraduate university approved by China’s Ministry of Education, located in Lanzhou, capital of Gansu Province. It has three campuses totaling 700.6 mu (about 116.8 acres), with 358,000 square meters of floor space and fixed assets of about RMB 310 million. Teaching equipment is valued at about RMB 56.8 million. The library holds about 638,000 print books, 153,000 e-books, and around 2,000 periodical subscriptions. Staff number about 1,156, including about 646 full-time teachers (395 professors and associate professors, 88 doctoral degree holders, and 413 master’s degree holders). There are 15 colleges and 10 institutes, plus units such as the Institute of Gansu Urban Development, the Training Center for Gansu Primary School Principals, and the Training Base for Professional and Technical Personnel in Gansu. About 55 specialties are offered at undergraduate and junior-college level across humanities, science, social science, management, and engineering, with roughly 13,000 full-time students. There are 25 laboratories and training centers (physics, chemistry, computer science, physical education, educational technology, and others). International partners named include institutions in Kazakhstan, New Zealand, Germany, Russia, Belarus, the UK, and Canada, plus long-term links with several Chinese normal universities and Hong Kong Open University. The university emphasizes urban-economy, urban-construction, urban-culture, and teacher-training related applied education for Gansu and northwest China

Lanzhou Jiaotong University (LZJTU), formerly Lanzhou Railway University, was founded in 1958 by combining departments from Tangshan Railway Institute (now Southwest Jiaotong University) and Beijing Railway Institute (now Beijing Jiaotong University). In April 2003 the Ministry of Education approved the name change to Lanzhou Jiaotong University. It is a comprehensive university with strength in engineering and programs in natural science, liberal arts, economics, and management. There are 3 campuses covering about 258 acres, 20 schools, 1 teaching department, and 4 postdoctoral research centers. Programs include 34 doctoral, 105 master’s, and 63 undergraduate programs, plus 19 provincial key disciplines, 2 national experimental teaching demonstration centers, and 1 national University Science and Technology District. Faculty: 2,277 educational professionals, including 1,455 full-time teachers and 786 professors/associate professors. Enrollment: over 30,000 total, including about 22,400 full-time undergraduates, 3,119 postgraduates, and over 20,595 continuing-education participants. More than 200 international students come from countries such as Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Korea, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ghana, Yemen, Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Mongolia, Laos, Vietnam, Rwanda, and Sudan. The library holds about 2.22 million volumes

Lanzhou University in Lanzhou, several subjects ranked in the global ESI top 1%.