At present, the university has 15,234 undergraduates, 1,892 postgraduates, 1,480 faculty members and 890 full-time teachers. Has 18 secondary schools, an independent college, and 5 affiliated hospital, 16 first-level discipline master's degree authorization centers, 61 undergraduate programs, 6 provincial superiority and characteristic discipline, 2 provincial first-class discipline, 9 degree authorization category, a ministry of education of humanities and social science research base, 1 national tourism administration of red tourism innovation development research base, nine provincial scientific research platform, 2 provincial level innovation teams, three academician workstation. In recent years, the university has undertaken more than 370 national and provincial scientific research projects, won more than 41 provincial and ministerial scientific research achievement awards, published more than 2,900 high-level papers and granted more than 590 patents. In 2015, the school was listed as a regional science fund application unit of the national natural science foundation of China. The university has cooperated with Beijing institute of technology, renmin university of China and other well-known universities in undergraduate, master and doctoral programs, and more than 30 well-known universities in the United States, Australia and Taiwan.

Yanan university is the communication center of yanan spirit in the new period, the school based on the national youth revolutionary tradition education base, patriotism education bases in Shanxi Province and shaanxi province college students yanan spirit education base, the national college students' cultural quality education base, the ministry of education college counselor training authority party school training base training base and the ministry of education and other education bases, founded the "cave university" and "ze east cadre institute", for from all over the country more than 150000 youth and cadres has conducted a diversity of patriotic education activities.

With the strong support of the provincial party committee, the provincial government, the municipal party committee and the municipal government, on April 22, 2016, the school launched the construction of a new campus. The new campus has 13,000 students, a total construction volume of 576,000 m2, and 54 buildings are planned to be built. At present, the new campus has been basically completed and the school has realized fundamental improvement.

At present, the school is to implement the general secretary xi is suggested to work globally important instructions spirit, in-depth to carry out the spirit of national conference on education and speed up the construction of provincial party committee and provincial government to support the yanan university deployment request, to carry forward yan 'an spirit, the courage to reform and innovation, and strive to promote more features, more levels of university construction.