On January 24, 1983, it was officially approved and announced by the former State Education Commission that Nanning Normal University obtained the qualification to hold correspondence education. In January 2008, the university established the School of Continuing Education, which is mainly responsible for certificate-oriented adult education and non-credential education. In March 2017, the university set up the Rural Development Research and Training Center in the School of Continuing Education.

The main functions of the School of Continuing Education are certificate-oriented adult education and non-credential education. In terms of certificate-oriented adult education, it currently has 4 adult higher education (correspondence) junior college majors, 26 majors for upgrading college to undergraduate, and has cultivated more than 80,000 graduates so far. It organizes learning-assistance activities for self-education examinations in various forms, such as social assistance, network assistance and special convergence, and launches more than 20 undergraduate and junior college majors, which has cultivated more than 100,000 graduates so far. In terms of non-credential education, it mainly carries out training for managers at all levels and professional and technical personnel in all walks of life (including agriculture and farmers), with a cumulative training of nearly 30,000 people. Among them, nearly 13,000 agricultural managers, and entrepreneurial leaders in poverty-stricken villages have been trained since 2017.

After years of development, the School of Continuing Education has applied for and approved a number of high-level training bases or training qualifications, including: Autonomous Region Level Continuing Education Base for Professional and Technical Personnel (in 2015), Guangxi Poverty Alleviation and Entrepreneurship Leader Training Base (in 2017, the first batch in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region), the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Level New-type Professional Farmer Cultivation Comprehensive Demonstration Base (in 2017, the first batch in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region), the Guangxi Agricultural Manager Cultivation and Training Base (in 2019, the only one in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region; in the same year, Nanning Normal University and the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Department of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region cooperated in founding Guangxi Agricultural Managers College), gave approval of the record of the Vocational Skills Appraisal Agency of the Autonomous Region (18 items in 2021), and being listed in the 2021 Catalogue of Vocational Skills Training Institutions (Professions) for Veterans.