Xinyang University ranked 908th in the national undergraduate colleges in 2022. Founded in 2003, Xinyang College is located in the Dabie Mountain Revolutionary Old District of Xinyang City, which is one of the top ten livable cities in China. It is adjacent to Nanwan Lake, the Pearl of Jianghuai, in the west and Jigongshan, the Cloud Park in the south. The school covers an area of more than 2,300 mu and has a beautiful campus environment. Known as "one of the most beautiful university campuses in Henan".

It centers on personnel training and forms a professional cluster based on normal majors, focusing on emerging applied majors and coordinated development of multiple disciplines. At present, there are 12 colleges, including foreign languages college, literature college, Marxism college, social science college, education college, business college, mathematics and statistics college, big data and artificial intelligence college, technical college, civil engineering college, art and design college and music college.