Tibet University is not 985. Tibet University is a comprehensive university affiliated to Xizang Autonomous Region. It is a university jointly established by the Ministry of Education and the People's Government of Xizang Autonomous Region, and is listed in the sequence of universities directly under the Ministry of Education. It is a national "2 1 1 engineering" key construction university and a national "double-class" world-class discipline construction university.

The history of running a school can be traced back to19511Tibetan cadre training class, and it has gone through the development stages of Tibet military region cadre school, Tibet local cadre school and Tibet administrative cadre school. 1965 and 1975, in order to meet the needs of millions of emancipated serfs to learn culture and build a new Tibet, the school went through the development stages of Tibet Normal School and Tibet Normal College, creating a precedent for normal education in Tibet.

In order to meet the needs of rapid economic and social development in Tibet, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, the school was officially renamed Tibet University 1985 in July. Since 1999, Xizang Autonomous Region Art School, Tibet Medical College, Medical Department of Tibet University for Nationalities and Xizang Autonomous Region College of Finance and Economics have successively merged into Tibet University, and entered a new stage of establishing a comprehensive university with regional ethnic characteristics.