Capital Normal University

Capital Normal University was founded in 1954 and has a history dating back to Tongzhou Normal School, which was established in 1905. It is a "Double First-Class" university and a "provincial-ministerial co-construction" university of Beijing and the Ministry of Education. The university now offers a wide range of disciplines including liberal arts, science, engineering, management, law, education, foreign languages, and art. Over the past more than 60 years, it has trained more than 200,000 senior specialized talents of all kinds and is an important base for talent cultivation in Beijing.

The university has 17 first-level disciplines authorized for doctoral degrees, 101 doctoral programs, 16 postdoctoral research stations, 25 first-level disciplines authorized for master's degrees, and 145 master's programs. There are 4 national key disciplines, 1 national key cultivation discipline, 8 Beijing first-level key disciplines, 12 Beijing second-level key disciplines, 2 Beijing first-level key construction disciplines, 13 Beijing second-level key construction disciplines, 4 Beijing first-level key cultivation disciplines, and 2 Beijing key interdisciplinary disciplines

The university has 30 colleges and departments. There is 1 junior college program and 57 undergraduate programs. A total of 26,971 students of all kinds. Among them, 196 are full-time students, 283 are junior college students, 11,286 are undergraduate students, 6,798 are master's students, 789 are doctoral students, 6,809 are adult education students, and 810 are international students. It has formed from junior college students to undergraduate students, master's students, doctoral students and postdoctoral students. From full-time to adult education and international student education, a comprehensive and multi-level educational pattern and system.

The school has 2,515 staff members. Among the 1,619 full-time teachers, 349 have senior professional titles, 640 have associate senior professional titles, 989 have doctoral degrees, and 385 have master's degrees. Teachers with master's degrees or above account for 85% of the total full-time teachers. There are 7 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 1 academician of the Russian Academy of Engineering, 1 academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, 4 members of the Academic Degrees Committee of The State Council, and 13 members of the Teaching Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education.

The university actively engages in international cultural exchange activities. It has established interuniversity exchange and cooperation relations with 225 universities in 42 countries and regions, and has set up six Confucius Institutes, namely the Confucius Institute at Saint Petersburg State University in Russia, the Confucius Institute at the University of Minnesota in the United States, the Confucius Institute at the University of Venice in Italy, the Confucius Institute at the University of Piula in Peru, the Confucius Institute at the University at Buffalo in New York State and the Confucius Institute at Bremen in Germany. In collaboration with Flinders University in Australia, 602 Master's students in education have been jointly trained. Since 2016, our university has trained nearly 800 international students from 45 countries along the Belt and Road Initiative. The university is one of the institutions approved by the Ministry of Education to accept international students and students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. It is the only municipal university in Beijing that has been awarded a demonstration base for international students by the Ministry of Education. It is also one of the four universities that have been selected as the first batch of "Beijing Chinese Language Education Bases". Our university has established a research center for Western Europe and has been selected as a talent training base for the Belt and Road Initiative.