Shenyang Normal University

Shenyang Normal University is affiliated to the People's Government of Liaoning Province. It was founded in 1951 and was formerly known as Northeast Education College. In 1953, it was renamed Shenyang Normal University. It was one of the two earliest undergraduate normal colleges established in Northeast China at that time. In 1965, it was renamed Liaoning First Normal College, and in 1978, the school name was restored to Shenyang Normal University. In 2000, the school successfully built a new campus, laying a solid foundation for the development of the school. In 2002, the Liaoning Provincial Government decided and with the approval of the Ministry of Education, Shenyang Normal University and Liaoning Institute of Education merged to form Shenyang Normal University. In 2011 and 2021, the school party committee won the honorary title of "Advanced Grassroots Party Organization" by the Liaoning Provincial Committee twice. In 2020, the school entered the top 200 best universities in the country in the "Shanghai Ruanke" ranking; in 2021, the ranking made another jump.

The school covers an area of ​​1.23 million square meters and has a construction area of ​​950,000 square meters. There are currently 20,272 full-time undergraduates, 3,670 master’s students, and 1,100 long- and short-term international students. There are 26 secondary colleges and 19 school-affiliated libraries, departments, centers, research institutes and affiliated institutions. There are 3 Confucius Institutes in Lebanon, Jordan and Ukraine, and 1 online Chinese class in Pakistan; Liaoning Basic Education Teaching and Research Training Center, Liaoning Educational Administration College, Liaoning Audio-visual Education Center, Liaoning Museum of Paleontology, and Liaoning Provincial Preschool Teachers The training centers are all located in our school.

The school currently has a team of high-quality teachers with excellent political qualities, superb professional abilities, and high levels of education. There are currently 2,243 faculty members and 1,348 full-time teachers, including 234 senior professional and technical personnel, 576 deputy senior professional and technical personnel, and 567 teachers with doctorate degrees. There is currently 1 "Changjiang Scholar" distinguished professor, 1 national "Ten Thousand Talents Plan" leading talent (famous teaching teacher), 1 National Hundred Thousand Talents Project candidate, 8 experts enjoying special government allowances from the State Council, and 2 national outstanding teachers. , 1 national leading talent in professional social work, 5 provincial outstanding experts, 29 people from the provincial "Xingliao Talent Plan" (3 climbing scholars, 12 distinguished professors, 1 leading talent in the Hundred Thousand Talents Project, and a leading talent in philosophy and social sciences 2 talents, 2 famous teaching teachers, 9 young top-notch talents), 2 provincial "four batches" talents, 111 provincial "hundred-thousand-thousand-talent project" candidates, 16 provincial undergraduate teaching famous teachers, and provincial innovative talents It supports 16 people in the program, 2 Huang Danian-style teacher teams in the provincial “Xingliao Talent Plan”, and 13 provincial innovation teams in higher education institutions.

The school has formed an education system that coordinates the development of undergraduate education, graduate education, and international student education. There are currently 77 undergraduate majors, 15 national first-class majors, 4 national specialty majors, 1 national comprehensive reform pilot major, 6 national first-class undergraduate courses, 1 national experimental teaching demonstration center, and national undergraduate off-campus 1 practical education base, 1 national-level training base for outstanding legal talents, 1 Sino-foreign cooperative education institution, 1 Ministry of Education excellent kindergarten teacher training plan reform project, 1 Ministry of Education excellent middle school teacher training plan reform project, national virtual simulation 1 experimental teaching project. There are 31 provincial-level first-class undergraduate education demonstration majors, 5 provincial-level advantageous specialty majors, 1 provincial-level college student entrepreneurship project selection and training base, 12 provincial-level college student off-campus practical education bases, 8 provincial-level teaching teams, and provincial-level experimental teaching There are 13 demonstration centers, 1 provincial engineering practice education center, and 91 provincial first-class courses. The school is a unit recommended by the Ministry of Education for outstanding fresh undergraduates to be exempted from pursuing a master's degree, a model university for deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education reform by the Ministry of Education, a national training base for primary and secondary school teachers by the Ministry of Education, a base for inheriting outstanding Chinese traditional culture (Peking Opera) by the Ministry of Education, and a Chinese non-profit university by the Ministry of Culture. It is a study and training base for tangible cultural heritage, a unit that accepts scholarships from the Chinese government and the Confucius Institute for international students, and a base for foreign aid training hosted by the Ministry of Commerce.

The school has a complete range of disciplines, covering 9 major disciplines: philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, science, engineering, management, and art. It entered the TOP200 in the 2020 Shanghai Ranking of Best Universities, and improved by 4 in 2021. places. There are currently 25 first-level master's degree authorization points and 11 professional master's degree authorization points. The education discipline has been selected as the first-class discipline in Liaoning Province, Category A level, has three national second-level societies, and has been selected as the "authoritative source agency for reprinting of National People's Congress photocopied materials". In the fourth round of national subject evaluation, education ranked among the top 20-30% of the same subjects nationwide. The Master of Education was approved as one of the first batch of national comprehensive reform pilot units for the Master of Education in Northeast China. In the first national professional degree level evaluation, the Master of Education professional degree authorization point was awarded B, ranking first in Liaoning and second in Northeast China.

The school always adheres to the concept of scientific and technological innovation and continuously improves the core competitiveness of scientific research work. The school currently has 24 scientific and technological innovation platforms at the provincial level and above, including 1 international science and technology organization cooperation platform, 1 major provincial university science and technology platform, 10 key laboratories, 5 engineering (technology) research centers, and 2 collaborative innovation centers. 2 campus-enterprise research institutes, 1 technology transfer demonstration institution, 1 scientific and technological achievements (intellectual property) transformation and technology transfer base, 1 Star Innovation World; 38 provincial-level and above humanities and social science innovation platforms , including 33 research bases, 2 school-site school-enterprise research institutes, and 3 new think tanks; 24 provincial scientific research teams, including 13 innovation teams, 2 educational decision-making consulting research teams, 8 science and technology missions, rural science and technology 1 mission team. In the past five years, the school has been approved for 207 national projects, including 7 major key projects; it has been approved for 97 government awards at the provincial level and above. School teachers have published 517 books, more than 300 authorized patents, and published 7,192 academic papers. The school has published a total of 6 academic papers in Nature magazine and 1 academic paper in Science magazine. It ranks among the top 100 CNS papers in China, ranking first in Liaoning Province and 18th in the country.

The school adheres to the concepts of open education and win-win cooperation, innovates mechanisms, improves quality and efficiency, and expands in-depth cooperation with high-level universities in the world. Currently, it has established friendly cooperative relations with 158 universities and institutions in 32 countries and regions on five continents; it currently has 1 Sino-foreign cooperative education institution and 1 Sino-foreign cooperative education project, and joint training is carried out with universities in the United States, Japan and other countries and regions. 4 doctoral projects; 3 overseas Confucius Institutes in Lebanon, Jordan and Ukraine and 1 online Chinese classroom in Pakistan; 1 ministerial-level international science and technology organization cooperation platform and 1 ministerial-level national and regional research center; it is a Chinese government scholarship and Confucius Institute scholarship recipients, foreign aid training organizers of the Ministry of Commerce, pre-service training units for Chinese teachers dispatched by the Chinese and Foreign Language Exchange and Cooperation Center of the Ministry of Education, vice-chairman units of the Foreign Student Management Branch of the China Higher Education Society, and vice-presidents of the Liaoning Provincial Education International Exchange Association The long-term unit and the president unit of the branch in China, the model construction university for studying in China in Liaoning Province, the vice-chairman unit of the Confucius Institute Cooperation University Alliance of Liaoning Province, the unit receiving and dispatching foreign affairs exchange officers of the Liaoning Provincial Government, and the "Cross-Strait University Student Exchange Base" of Liaoning Province .

Facing the future, the school adheres to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, conscientiously implements General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important expositions on education, implements the spirit of the national and provincial education conferences, and under the correct leadership of the Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government, in accordance with The strategic deployment of the school's fourth party congress is to implement the "five major strategies" in depth, strive to promote the "six major breakthroughs", adhere to the principle of cultivating people with moral integrity, focus on striving to be first-class with characteristics, take connotative development as the main line, and take Taking reform and innovation as the driving force, we strive to create a number of national first-class pillar and iconic disciplines and majors to serve the comprehensive revitalization and all-round revitalization of Liaoning, and strive unremittingly to build a high-level normal university with distinctive advantages and characteristics.

(The data in this article is as of September 2021)