Strengthening the ideological and political education of minority college students is the key link to promote national unity,but also to accelerate the economic and social development of the important engine of minority areas. In recent years,the minority nationality university student thought condition appears dislocation and even the landslide,this has proposed the new challenge and the new request to the minority university student ideological and political education.Research status of the paper by reviewing the domestic and foreign minority college students ideological and political education,to the domestic and foreign research contents were analyzed,as well as the related content were summarized and compared,so as to clarify the new research direction and development trend. This can not only enrich the content system of Ideological and political education of ethnic minority college students,but also highlight the effectiveness and practical value of the ideological and political education of ethnic minority students.