South China Normal University

South China Normal University was founded in 1933. South China Normal University was founded in 1933 and is a provincial key university and a key university under the national Project 211, with a comprehensive range of disciplines including philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering and management. It offers 84 bachelor’s programs, more than 200 master’s degree authorizations and more than 100 doctoral degree authorizations. Its distinctive strengths are teacher education programs, education and psychology. Serving Guangdong’s new economic and social development, it is advancing reform and development across all fields and working toward becoming a distinctive, high-level teaching and research university. It currently has 24894 undergraduates, 7553 master’s students and 842 doctoral students. Each year, more than 1600 long-term international students from over 100 countries study here, including over 500 degree students. The university has 3 multifunctional, information-enabled libraries with more than 3.1 million volumes.

South China Normal University places great importance on faculty development. Through years of effort, it has built an international, highly qualified faculty and developed and attracted high-level experts and scholars with influence in China and abroad. It has 1979 teaching and research personnel, including 1098 professors, researchers, associate professors and associate researchers, and 10 academicians.

The university values international exchange and cooperation and has established partnerships with dozens of overseas higher education institutions and research organizations. It undertakes substantive cooperation in introducing overseas expertise and quality educational resources, talent development, academic research, cooperative education, hosting international conferences, publishing academic achievements and teaching Chinese as a foreign language. It is one of China’s bases for teaching Chinese as a foreign language and a host institution for government scholarship students. It began admitting international students in 1987 and has established Confucius Institutes in France, Canada and Latvia.

Two of its campuses are in Guangzhou and another is in the neighboring city of Foshan. Close to Hong Kong and Macao, they benefit from a prosperous economy, convenient transport and a pleasant climate. The Canton Fair, held in Guangzhou every spring and autumn, attracts many visitors from abroad.