In 1978, it was authorized to grant bachelor's degrees and changed its name to Luzhou Medical College (Chinese: 泸州医学院, Luyi (Chinese: 泸医 for short).

[2] The university has two campuses: Zhongshan and Chengbei, covering 1,004,700 square meters in total.

The area has a multitude of green camphor trees and local flowers.

The approximate 17,000 students who typically occupy the college at any one time are from a wide variety of Chinese provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, and many come from other countries.

The staff number at around 2,560, with 520 of them being onsite professors or associate professors whose focus includes Western medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, and a hybrid combination of the two.