Central China Normal University

Central China Normal University is a key comprehensive normal university directly under the Ministry of Education, a key university under the "211 Project", and a university under the "985 Advantage Discipline Innovation Platform" for teacher education, located on Guizi Mountain by the south lake in Wuhan, Hubei Province, which is a transportation hub connecting nine provinces, covering an area of over 1.2 million square meters. It is an important base for training teachers for middle and higher education institutions and other senior specialized talents in China.

The university has a long history and was established in 1951 as the public Huazhong University, based on the university department of Wenhua College founded in 1903 (formerly Wenhua College founded in 1871, renamed Huazhong University in 1924), Zhonghua University founded in 1912, and the College of Education of Zhongyuan University founded in 1949. In 1952, it was reformed into Central China Higher Normal School. In 1953, it was renamed Central China Normal College. In 1985, it was renamed Central China Normal University, with its name inscribed by Deng Xiaoping, one of the founders of Central China University. Over the course of more than a hundred years of development, the school has inherited the essence of traditional Chinese culture, absorbed the nourishment of foreign cultures, and carried forward the tradition of revolutionary cultural education, forming the "loyal, broad, simple and resolute" spirit of Huazhong Normal University, and has cultivated more than 300,000 outstanding talents for the country.

The university has 30 colleges and 70 undergraduate programs open to students from all over the country. It has a higher education system from undergraduate to master's, doctoral and postdoctoral, and from full-time to adult education. At present, there are nearly 32,000 full-time students of all kinds, including nearly 18,000 undergraduates, more than 11,000 postgraduates and more than 2,900 international students. There are more than 3,800 faculty members, including 1,966 full-time teachers, among whom 1,293 are professors and associate professors, 397 are doctoral supervisors, and 40 are national-level talents such as academicians, senior professors of humanities and social sciences, "Changjiang Scholars", "National Teaching Masters", "Thousand Talents Program" recipients, and recipients of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars.

The university has 8 national key disciplines, 1 national key (cultivated) discipline, 22 first-level key disciplines of Hubei Province, and postdoctoral research stations in 15 specialties including Chinese language and literature and physics. It has 14 first-level disciplines authorized to confer doctoral degrees, 32 first-level disciplines authorized to confer master's degrees, and 92 disciplines authorized to confer doctoral degrees. There are 178 disciplines and specialties authorized for doctoral degrees.