The school has three campuses: Gaoxin Campus, Youxian Campus and Gu Feng Campus, covering an area of nearly 2,000 mu and a building area of over 460,000 square meters. The school has 16 secondary colleges and 52 full-time undergraduate majors, covering 9 disciplines; * * * provincial first-class professional construction sites 10, and 6 provincial application demonstration majors; There are 4 provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers and provincial virtual simulation experimental projects 1; Sichuan Key Laboratory 1 each, Sichuan Social Science Key Research Base 4, provincial high-level research team 2 and Sichuan Key Laboratory (Engineering Research Center) 5.
The school, formerly known as Mianyang School in Sichuan, was founded in 1940. In 2002, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, Mianyang Normal College merged with Mianyang Branch of Sichuan Education College to become Mianyang Normal College. In 2006, it became a bachelor's degree awarding unit; 20 1 1 approved to become a pilot unit of "serving the national special needs project" and recruit graduate students majoring in environmental engineering. Excellent alumni such as Wang, Chen Huafu have been trained.
Mianyang Normal University ranked 390th in China University of Soft Sciences in 2022; In 2022, ABC China University ranked 382nd.