（Changchun）Northeast Normal University

Introduction
Toweringly standing in the East, rooted in Yan'an. On October 25, 1945, Chairman Mao Zedong met with the key leaders of Yan'an University and instructed the school to move northeast and establish a "new type of Northeast University." In February 1946, Northeast University was established in Benxi, Liaoning, becoming the first comprehensive university created by the Communist Party in the northeastern region. In July 1949, it was relocated to Changchun, Jilin, and renamed Northeast Normal University in April 1950. In September 1996, NENU one of the first universities given priority in construction in the "211 Project". In June 2004, the graduate school was established with the approval of the Ministry of Education. In 2007, it was selected as a national "985 Project Innovation Platform for Dominant Disciplines". In September 2017, NENU was among the first batch of universities selected for the national "Double First-Class" Initiative.

Operating on two campuses, the university offers a comprehensive range of disciplines. NENU currently has over 15,000 full-time undergraduate students, more than 15,000 master's students, over 3,000 doctoral students, and around 700 international students. There are over 1,700 full-time teachers, including 560 professors and 657 associate professors. The university comprises 21 schools, covering 12 disciplinary categories, with 82 undergraduate majors. NENU has 46 majors selected as national first-class undergraduate program construction sites and 3 bases for the Ministry of Education's national training program 2.0 for top students in basic disciplines. There are 24 doctoral programs of the first-level disciplines, 37 master’s programs of the first-level disciplines, 1 doctoral program of professional degrees, and 21 master’s programs of professional degrees. There are 24 post-doctoral research stations.
The university has six national "Double First-Class" disciplines, including marxism, education, world history, chemistry, statistics, and materials science and engineering, ranking 19th nationally in the number of selections. NENU also has five national key disciplines in ideological and political education, principles of education, world history, cell biology, and ecology. In the fourth round of discipline evaluation by the Ministry of Education's Degree Center, six disciplines were rated as Class A (including one A+), and 15 as Class B.
With distinctive characteristics and remarkable achievements, the university places education and teaching as its foundation. Over the past 70 years, it has developed a distinct characteristic of "serving basic education" and is known as the "cradle of the people's teachers." In the 1950s, the renowned educator and former president of the university, Cheng Fangwu, proposed the educational ideology of serving primary and secondary education, pioneering China's higher teacher correspondence education. In the 1980s, NENU actively served rural basic education, establishing the acclaimed "Changbai Mountain Road." In the 1990s, NENU implemented the "Excellent Educator Project" to cultivate outstanding teachers for basic education. In the new century, NENU initiated the "Educator Training Project" and explored "A New Model of U-G-S Teacher Education," establishing the only national co-constructed and collaboratively innovated center for teacher education. The "Educator Training Project" and the "A New Model of U-G-S Teacher Education" have won the National Higher Education Teaching Achievement First Prize. The National Basic Education Experimental Center, the National Training Center for Kindergarten Principals, Ministry of Education, and the Northeast Teachers Training Center for Institutions of Higher Learning, Ministry of Education are located at NENU.

As a research-intensive university, it has achieved fruitful results in scientific research. The university has 18 national-level and ministerial-level scientific and technological innovation platforms, including national engineering laboratories, national field scientific observation and research stations, national-local joint engineering laboratories, national applied mathematics centers, national international joint research centers, and Ministry of Education key laboratories. NENU has ten ministerial-level humanities and social science research platforms, including the Ministry of Education’s key research base for humanities and social sciences, and the Ministry of Education’s research center for country and regional studies.  In recent years, research results have won four second prizes of the National Natural Science Award, including two in the field of materials science, one in statistics, and one in chemistry. It has also won four first prizes in the seventh and eighth rounds of the Outstanding Achievements Award for Scientific Research in Higher Education (Humanities and Social Sciences), including three in the field of history and one in the field of Marxist theory.

The university is committed to open education and has established cooperative relationships with more than 275 universities and research institutions in over 30 countries and regions, including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, South Korea, Japan, Russia, etc. NENU has six Overseas Expertise Introduction Centers for Discipline Innovation and four Confucius Institutes. It has cooperated with Rutgers University in the United States to establish Northeast Normal University-Rutgers Newark Institute and has led 12 universities in China and Mongolia to establish the "Association of Universities of China and Mongolia." Central government departments such as the State Council's Overseas Chinese Affairs Office, the Ministry of Education, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have established the "International Chinese Language Teachers Training Base," the "Chinese Culture Education Base," the "Education Aid Base," and the "China-ASEAN Education Training Center" at NENU. The China-Japan joint government-funded preparatory school for Chinese students studying in Japan, located at NENU, is an important base for serving the national talent training strategy and promoting Sino-Japanese cultural exchanges.

Contact Information:
Add：Room 624, Administration Building, Northeast Normal University, No. 5268, Renmin Street, Changchun, Jilin, P.R.China
Tel：0431-85099754/85685722
Email：iso@nenu.edu.cn, admission@nenu.edu.cn
Web：http://iso.nenu.edu.cn
Registration Web：http://studyatnenu.nenu.edu.cn

Source: Northeast Normal University