Beijing Normal University is located in the capital city, Beijing. Founded in 1902, it is a key university directly under the Ministry of Education. In recent years, under the support of 211 Project and 985 Project, Beijing Normal University has entered a new stage of historical development and has made remarkable achievements in disciplinary construction, personnel training, teaching and research; laying a solid foundation for training by becoming a comprehensive, distinctive, research-based world-renowned high-rank university. At present, our school has nearly 2,000 full-time teachers and 26,400 full-time students, including 10,197 undergraduates, 14,572 graduate students and over 1,700 long-term international students. There is 1 faculty, 26 colleges (schools), 2 departments and 40 institutes (centres).
The comprehensive strength of Beijing Normal University ranks among the nation's top universities. In 2002, Beijing Normal University became one of the first six colleges to have the right to approve undergraduate programs independently. There are currently 64 undergraduate majors, 146 second-level master's degree programs, 109 second-level doctoral programs, 25 post-doctoral mobile stations, 24 first-level doctoral programs and 37 first-level disciplines of master's degree programs. 5 first-level disciplines, 11 second-level disciplines approved national key disciplines, two second-level disciplines approved the national key (nurture) disciplines. 5 first-level disciplines; Education, psychology, Chinese history, geography, ecology, all rank in the national first level subjects. 3 first-level disciplines; Chinese language and literature, drama and film, system science all rank second, a total of 10 disciplines rank in the national top five, while 17 first-level disciplines rank in the top ten.
Beijing Normal University has extensive international cooperation and exchange. The school has signed cooperation agreements with nearly 300 universities and research institutes in over 30 countries and regions and has exchange student project cooperation with more than 80 universities in the United States, Britain, Canada, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Switzerland, Spain, Hong Kong, Macau and other countries and regions. The school has created 8 Confucius Institutes in cooperation with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom, San Francisco State University, University of Oklahoma, Dawson College in Canada, Aalborg University in Denmark, University of Macerata in Italy, University of William Mary in the United States and Tufts University in the United States.
Beijing Normal University has enrolled international students since 1965 and has accumulated rich experience in teaching Chinese as a foreign language and in teaching professional majors to overseas students. Currently, long-term international students come from 124 countries and regions, of which 70% study degree. At present, we have set up a Master's Degree in English for International education in eight fields; Comparative education, Higher education management, Public administration, Human geography, Law, World economy, Environmental science and Chinese philosophy, and set up an International English Ph.D. degree in Comparative education. At the same time, there are 105 English-taught advance studies credit courses taught in five disciplines; Education, Economics, Management science, Environmental science, Geography, and Law, thereby providing a learning arena for all outstanding students from around the world. Beijing Normal University earnestly hopes to have extensive exchanges with students from all over the world and deepen its friendship with people of all countries through academic exchanges.
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