国际教育学院始创于2000年，时称外语系，2008年更名为应用外语系，2017年更名为国际教育学院。现有专职教师43人，其中教授3人，副教授16人，外籍教师2人，具有全国翻译资格等级证、导游证、全国国际商务英语等级考试证等资格证书的“双师型”教师34人，兼职教师8名，多名教师拥有海外工作、研修及培训经历。另特聘翻译、石油化工等领域的行业指导专家多名。
国际教育学院承担全院公共英语教学任务，积极探索和实践“基础英语+视听说+行业英语+公共选修课”的公共英语立体化教学体系；现开设应用英语、商务英语、旅游英语等4个招生专业(方向)，培养“会英语、懂工程、知管理、善交际”的高素质技术技能型人才；自2017年起招收“一带一路”沿线国家留学生，国际化办学取得实效；承担了兰州石化公司研究院、中石油第二建设公司、中石化第五建设公司、兰州寰球工程公司等企业的员工英语培训，形成区域影响较大的社会（企业）英语培训品牌。建成省级特色专业1个，教育部骨干专业1个，省级教学成果奖1项，省级在线精品课程1项。
国际教育学院建有英语听说能力实训室、国际同声传译实训室、中国传统文化体验馆、外语3D虚拟情景VR实训室、数字交互语言互动实训室等校内实训基地。与中石化第五建设有限公司、山东胜越石化工程建设公司、武威阳光教育科技发展有限公司、义乌市青岩刘品牌管理有限公司等10多家企业有密切合作关系，建立校外实训基地，开展协同育人，为学生实训、实习与就业提供平台。
学院现有在校生约400人，其中来自老挝、巴基斯坦、塔吉克斯坦、吉尔吉斯斯坦、哈萨克斯坦和印度尼西亚的留学生60余人。遵循“一人一赛，全员参与”的拔尖人才培养机制，培养的学生连续11年在全国和省级英语专业大赛中获奖105项次，其中省级特等奖23项，国赛奖励7项。学院与国内多家知名涉外工程企业、外贸企业建立了紧密联系，学生毕业后赴沙特、科威特等国及国内石化、外贸、旅游企业就业，毕业生一次性就业率连续9年达到96%以上，在全省高职院校英语类专业中发挥了引领、示范作用。
Founded in 2000 and initially called the Department of Foreign Languages,the School of International Education was renamed the Department of Applied Foreign Languages in 2008 and then got its current name in 2017. Today it owns a faculty of 43, among whom there are 3 professors, 16 associate professors, 2 foreign teachers as well as 8 part-time teachers. Besides, 34 of them have been entitled to dual-qualified teachers acquiring certain professional certificates such as Translation and Interpretation Proficiency Qualification Certificate, Certificate of Tour Guide, China National Business English Certificate etc. Quite a few teachers once worked, studied and got trained overseas. In addition, the School has employed a number of experts in translation, petrochemical and other fields as visiting professors.
At present, the School is running four majors: Applied English (petrochemical direction and engineering translation direction), Business English, and Tourism English, aiming to cultivate high-quality technical talents who “know both English and Engineering & Management. Moreover, the School also shoulders Public English teaching tasks for non-majors under a system of basic English + audio-visual English + industry English + public elective courses. Since 2017, it has started to enroll foreign students coming from the countries along the “Belt and Road” route and has achieved practical results on the way to internationalization. What’s more, the School has been committed to offering English training for companies like Lanzhou Petrochemical Research Institute, China Petroleum Second Construction Company, SINOPEC Fifth Construction Company, Lanzhou Huanqiu Engineering Company and others. As a result, it has built itself up as a big brand in the training market and won a high reputation in the region by establishing one provincial-level key specialty, one backbone major of the Ministry of Education, and one provincial-level online excellent course, let alone one provincial-level teaching achievement award.
The School of International Education has set up a series of training bases: an English listening and speaking ability training room, an international simultaneous interpretation training room, a Chinese traditional culture experience hall, a foreign language 3D virtual scene VR training room, and a digital interactive language training room.More than that, it’s also in partnership with over 10 enterprises nationwide, like Sinopec Fifth Construction Co., Ltd., Shandong Shengyue Petrochemical Engineering Construction Co., Ltd., Wuwei Sunshine Education Technology Development Co., Ltd., and Yiwu Qingyan Liu Brand Management Co., Ltd. Two sides establish off-campus training bases jointly where students can get trained and the chance of getting internship and employment.
Currently about 400 students are at the School, among whom there are more than 60 international students from Laos, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Indonesia. Running well on the system for training top-notch talented students, the School has fully prepared its students and has won 105 awards in English contests nationally and provincially for the 11thyear in a row. Benefiting from a close tie between the School and foreign-related engineering and trading enterprises in China, graduates can find jobs in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and other countries as well as in petrochemical, foreign trade, and tourism companies at home. The first employment rate has reached above 96% for the 9thyear in succession. The School has played a leading and demonstrative role for other vocational colleges in Gansu province.