Mudanjiang Normal University

Founded in 1958, Mudanjiang Normal University is authorized to award master’s degrees and received an Excellent rating in the Ministry of Education’s teaching evaluation. Rooted in the border region, serving Heilongjiang and remaining close to rural communities, it has grown over more than sixty years into the largest provincial undergraduate institution in southeastern Heilongjiang, with a comprehensive range of disciplines, strong overall capabilities, a clear teacher education identity and distinctive applied strengths. The university upholds the Party’s overall leadership and the rule of law in education, institutional operation and governance. It follows the philosophy of “Education First, Moral Development Foremost” and fulfills the mission of “Educating People for the Party and Developing Talent for the Nation.” It has trained many basic education teachers committed to the border region and applied professionals serving local communities, equipped with social responsibility, innovative spirit, practical ability, sound physical and mental health, and specialist knowledge.

The university covers 683500 square meters, with a building floor area of 350600 square meters. It has 39 smart classrooms, 199 high-definition electronic multimedia classrooms and 493 laboratories, and has completed a 22000-square-meter practical training building for teacher education. Its library holds more than 1.87 million printed books and over 2.36 million e-books.

It has 1231 faculty and staff, of whom 486 hold senior professional titles, including 129 full senior and 357 associate senior titles. 989 hold master’s or doctoral degrees, 3 receive special government allowances, 9 are Heilongjiang Category D high-level talents, and 2 are Category E high-level talents. It has 11 second-grade professors and 14 provincially distinguished teachers. It offers 58 undergraduate programs, master’s degree authorization in 10 first-level disciplines and 40 second-level disciplines, and 6 professional master’s degree categories covering 21 fields. Its disciplines and programs cover 10 categories, including education, engineering and science. It admits students nationwide and has 18887 students, including 17166 undergraduates and 1721 postgraduate students.

At national level, the university has 5 first-class undergraduate program development sites, 1 distinctive development program, 1 pilot program for comprehensive reform and 9 first-class courses. At provincial level, it has 12 first-class undergraduate program development sites, 2 key disciplines, 2 advantageous and distinctive disciplines under the provincial Double First-Class initiative, 3 pilot programs for comprehensive reform, 3 teaching teams, 49 first-class courses, 14 quality courses, 1 discipline under the provincial philosophy and social sciences disciplinary system innovation project, 3 key laboratories, 2 engineering technology research and development centers, 5 research centers and academic exchange bases, 1 science popularization base, and 3 experimental teaching demonstration centers.

The university fully uses its distinctive strengths in researching the spirit of the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army, Bohai culture, the protection of minority languages and local dialects, and services for development. It has successively received approval for the National Research Center for the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army, a Heilongjiang Key School of Marxism, a Heilongjiang Demonstration University for Ideological and Political Curriculum Development, a provincial academic exchange base for Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army research, a Chinese intangible cultural heritage inheritor research and training base, a Ministry of Education key research base in the humanities and social sciences, a provincial intangible cultural heritage research base, a provincial university humanities base for Bohai culture research, a national demonstration school for standardized spoken and written language, a national spoken and written language promotion base, a provincial national spoken and written language promotion base, the Heilongjiang branch of the China Rural Education Development Research Institute, a provincial demonstration university for deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education reform, a provincial university model center for mental health education, and a provincial training base for economic and trade professionals working with Russia.

It has established friendly partnerships with more than 30 Russian universities and recruited 5 foreign academicians. It has formed a Sino-Russian international joint physics laboratory for Functional Materials, an international cooperative team for Sino-Russian Rural Education Research, and a Sino-Russian virtual teaching and research office for teacher education. It hosts activities including a Chinese poetry competition for international students and international academic exchange conferences on rural education and teacher education research. It has 52 international partner institutions and mutual credit recognition arrangements with more than 30 overseas universities.