Nanjing Normal University

Nanjing Normal University (NNU) is one of the provincial key universities of “Project 211” under the supervision of the Ministry of Education and the Jiangsu Provincial Government. Its origin can be traced back to 1902 with the establishment of Sanjiang Normal College, as one of the cradles of China’s higher normal schools. NNU has three campuses: Xianlin Campus, Suiyuan Campus, and Zijin Campus, among which Suiyuan Campus is renowned as “the most beautiful campus of the Orient”. NNU now consists of 28 schools and 2 independent colleges with an enrollment of 18,369 undergraduates, 11,039 graduate students and 1,525 doctoral candidates. It also has 3,247 faculty and staff. The NNU Library has a total collection of around 3.81 million volumes and 152 electronic databases.

NNU is one of the first group of universities to open up to the outside world in China, boasting a model base authorized by the Ministry of Education for foreign students’ education and base for teaching Chinese to foreigners, one of the first bases for Chinese language education and preschool education for students from China’s Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan regions. In addition, it has several international research and teaching organizations like UNESCO International Rural Education Research and Training Center (INRULED) Nanjing Base, French Culture Research Center and Alliance (Française de Nanjing) and the Italian Culture Research Center. NNU has established 3 Confucius Institutes at North Carolina State University, Pace University and France’s Alsace Region. It has developed joint programs with 16 overseas universities and launched study abroad programs with 123 universities. Apart from that, NNU has established intercollegiate exchange relationships with 232 universities from 42 countries and regions all over the world. NNU has employed more than 400 foreign experts, 80 of whom are long-term ones, and it also has received more than 1,800 foreign students annually.