The university is part of Project 211 and the Double First-Class Construction.

In the end of 1997, Ningxia Institute of Technology and Yinchuan Normal College (including Ningxia Education College) were merged into the university.

It consists of more than 2,600 teachers and staff, over 50% of them are formal instructors.

More than half of the instructors hold intermediate to senior titles, 52% of them with masters or doctors degrees.

15 teachers receives special subsidies of the State Council, and 17 were elected into "National Hundreds, Thousands, Tens of Thousands Experts Project".