Harbin Normal University

Founded in 1951, Harbin Normal University is a high-level teaching and research university with a long history and distinctive teacher education. It is an important talent training and research base in education, arts, humanities, social sciences and natural sciences in Heilongjiang and a high-level university designated for priority development by the province. It is included in the national Central and Western China Higher Education Basic Capacity Building Project and is a Ministry of Education pilot university for comprehensive reform in all-staff, whole-process and all-round education. In December 2022, it was selected for domestic first-class university development in Heilongjiang’s new round of Double First-Class projects.

It is located in Harbin, northern China’s Ice City, with two campuses on the southern and northern banks of the Songhua River, forming a one-university, two-campus structure. It covers 3.46 million square meters, with a building floor area of 1.639 million square meters. It has an exhibition center integrating four museums, centered on its cultural museum. Its library holds over 3.6 million books and is a National Key Institution for the Protection of Ancient Books.

It has 25 schools and departments, 82 undergraduate programs, 104 disciplines authorized to award master’s degrees, 24 authorized to award doctoral degrees, and 5 postdoctoral research stations. It has 37000 full-time undergraduate, master’s and doctoral students.

It has a strong faculty of more than 1800 full-time teachers, including over 330 professors, over 660 associate professors and more than 600 doctoral and master’s supervisors. It has over 90 nationally recognized outstanding talents, including national Hundred-Thousand-Ten Thousand Talent Project experts, national young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions, recipients of special State Council allowances, nationally distinguished teachers and National Outstanding Teachers.

It conducts extensive international cultural exchange and cooperation and has educational, scientific and technological partnerships and academic exchange relationships with more than 80 universities and research institutions in over 30 countries and regions, including Russia, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Japan, Canada, Australia, Poland, South Korea, Brazil and Egypt. It has established 4 Confucius Institutes and 1 independent Confucius Classroom overseas and has been recognized as an Outstanding Chinese Partner Institution for Confucius Institutes. It admits students receiving Chinese Government Scholarships, International Chinese Language Teachers Scholarships and Heilongjiang Provincial Government Scholarships. It is a test center for China’s Certificate for Teachers of Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages and an HSK base.

Since beginning international student education in 1984, it has trained more than 20000 international students of various categories from 67 countries and regions. It currently receives over 1000 long- and short-term international students annually. It has three dedicated international student residence buildings with a total floor area of 23,000 square meters. Single and twin rooms have private bathrooms, air conditioning, refrigerators, Wi-Fi and other facilities. The residences also have gyms, shared kitchens and shared laundry rooms, providing comfortable and convenient accommodation.