To accelerate the development of the ethnic minority regions and cultivate ethnic minority talent, the state has successively implemented policies of setting up the Tibet Class and the Xinjiang Class in institutions of higher learning in China's interior regions ("neidi"), enabling some of the finest young students among the ethnic minorities to enter colleges and universities in China's interior region and obtain an education. Where the institutions of higher education are concerned, comprehensively implementing the Party's policies for ethnic minorities and providing ethnic minority students with a good ideological/political education are matters of important strategic significance, but such work inevitably presents difficulties. This paper begins by describing the importance of the work of providing ethnic minority students with an ideological/political education, then explores the characteristics of today's ethnic minority students, and, finally, proposes ways of conducting quality ideological/political education for ethnic minority students. (Contains 2 footnotes.)