北方民族大学直属国家民族事务委员会，是一所综合性普通高等院校，前身为1984年始建的西北第二民族学院，2008年更名为北方民族大学。学校坐落在“塞上江南”——宁夏回族自治区首府银川市，是我国唯一一所建立在民族八省区的中央部委高校，为博士、硕士、学士学位授权单位。

North Minzu University is directly under the State Ethnic Affairs Commission and is a comprehensive ordinary institution of higher education. Its predecessor was the Second Northwest Institute for Nationalities founded in 1984, and it was renamed North Minzu University in 2008. Located in Yinchuan, the capital of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region known as the "Jiangnan beyond the Great Wall", it is the only central ministry-affiliated university established in the eight provinces and autonomous regions with ethnic minorities in China, and is authorized to confer doctoral, master's and bachelor's degrees.

学校坚持以习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想为指导，现有来自全国31个省、市、自治区的56个民族的博士生、硕士生、本科生、预科生共2.2万余人，是中华民族大家庭的缩影。学校设有10个学科门类的76个本科专业，拥有民族学、数学一级学科博士学位授权点，13个一级学科硕士学位授权点及13个专业硕士学位授权点，4个国家级特色专业，形成了以民族学科为特色，多学科协调发展的学科专业体系。

Adhering to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, the university currently has over 22,000 doctoral students, master's students, undergraduates and preparatory students from 56 ethnic groups across 31 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions in China, serving as a microcosm of the Chinese nation. It offers 76 undergraduate programs covering 10 disciplines, with first-level doctoral degree authorization points in Ethnology and Mathematics, 13 first-level master's degree authorization points, 13 professional master's degree authorization points, and 4 national-level characteristic specialties, forming a disciplinary and professional system with ethnic studies as its特色 and multi-disciplinary coordinated development.