Northeast Normal University

Northeast Normal University is an institution of higher learning under the direct administration of the Ministry of Education, being selected as one of the universities given priority in construction in the 211 Project. Six disciplines of NENU, Marxism, world history, mathematics, chemistry, statistics, materials science and engineering, have been selected into the "Double First-rate" construction disciplines in 2017.

NENU has two campuses (Ziyou campus and Jingyue campus) and a variety of majors. There are over 28,024 full-time students and 1,557 full-time teachers, including 497 professors and 616 associate professors. The university comprises 23 schools, 78 undergraduate specialties, 38 M.A. programs of the first-level discipline, 17 M.A. master programs of professional degree, 22 Doctoral programs of the first-level discipline, two doctoral program of professional degree, 20 Post-doctoral Research Stations and 5 national key disciplines. In all, NENU has all the 11 disciplines except for Military Science and Medicine.

Over the past 70 years since the establishment of the university, NENU has formed a distinctive school-running characteristic of "Serving Basic Education", being praised as "The Cradle of the People's Teachers". 

In recent years, the four disciplines, including Chemistry, Materials Science, Engineering, and Plant and Animal Science, have been listed in the top 1% of the ESI global ranking, and NENU has ranked fourth of the ESI total cited articles among national colleges and universities. There is one national engineering laboratory and six ministerial-level key laboratories for drug gene and protein screening. And there are two key research bases for Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education, i.e. The Research Center of World Civilization History and The Institute of Rural Education.

NENU has established cooperation and exchange relations with more than 297 universities and research institutions in over 30 countries and regions, including the U.S., Canada, the UK, Australia, Korea, Japan and Russia, etc. In 2015, NENU co-founded Rutgers University Newark Institute at NENU with Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Also, NENU has established Confucius Institutes in Korea, Spain, the U.S., Canada, and Mongolia. Office of Chinese Language Council International (Hanban), Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs respectively set up "International Chinese Language Teacher Training Base", "Chinese Culture Education Base", "Education Aid Base" and "China-ASEAN Education Training Center" in NENU. Preparatory School for Chinese students to Japan is also founded here.

NENU has cultivated many academic elites and talents of many generations. The university has a number of famous experts and scholars at home and abroad. There were many well-known scholars who were former NENU faculties, including the poet and lyricist of "Chinese People's Liberation Army" Gong Mu(Zhang Songru), the writers Xiao Jun and Wu Boxiao, the literary historian Yang Gongji, the linguist Sun Changxu, the historians Li Xun, Ding Zemin, and Lin Zhichun, the educator Chen Yuanhui, the musicians Ma Ke and Lv Ji, the pathologist Bai Xiqing, the mathematician Zhang Dexin, the nuclear physicist Wang Lin etc.