Guizhou University established a sister school relationship with the Presbyterian College in Clinton, South Carolina; the latter offers a Chinese language program for the fifteen American students every year.

The university consists of 39 colleges and offers programs of study in 11 academic divisions leading to associate, baccalaureate, master's, and doctoral degrees.

[7][5] In 1989 Guizhou Agricultural College, then a separate university, began hosting VSO teachers in the Foreign Language Department.

Simultaneously, VSO teachers from the UK and the Netherlands were recruited to work in other Guiyang institutes of higher education including the school of fashion and the catering college, both experiencing booms concurrent with Guiyang's emergence from relative obscurity.

The volunteers teach at both the undergraduate and graduate level in the School of Foreign Languages.

[11]: 139 Guizhou University has three campuses situated in Huaxi District around the city of Guiyang.