Hebei Normal University

Founded in 1902, Hebei Normal University is a provincial key university jointly supported by the People’s Government of Hebei Province and the Ministry of Education and a first-tier university in Hebei’s Double First-Class initiative. Located in Shijiazhuang, the provincial capital near Beijing, it offers programs across 10 disciplinary categories: philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, management and the arts. It has 21 schools, including life sciences, mathematics and information sciences, literature, physics, business, history and culture, music, fine arts and design, foreign languages, physical education and international culture.

It offers doctoral degrees in 8 first-level and 4 second-level disciplines, master’s degrees in 26 first-level and 5 second-level disciplines, 12 professional master’s degree categories and 95 undergraduate programs. Chemistry and plant and animal science rank in the global ESI top 1%. Its 1578 full-time teachers include 430 with full senior and 931 with associate senior professional titles, 1 academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 124 doctoral supervisors and 768 master’s supervisors. It has 36157 students of all types.

Its resources include 1 national experimental zone for innovative talent development models, 1 national teaching team, 6 national distinctive program development sites, 4 national comprehensive program reform pilot projects, 108 National College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program projects, 6 national quality resource-sharing courses, 1 national quality open video course and 4 national experimental teaching demonstration centers.

The university undertakes extensive international cooperation and exchange. It has formal partnerships with 85 universities and educational institutions in 23 countries, and engages with more than 200 overseas universities in cooperative education, faculty and student exchanges, online courses, research cooperation and overseas expertise recruitment, steadily improving internationalization. It is a host institution for Chinese Government Scholarship and Confucius Institute Scholarship international students. Each year, more than 600 long- and short-term self-funded international language and degree students come from countries including Russia, the United States, Italy, South Korea, Indonesia and Pakistan. It has established 3 Confucius Institutes and 1 Confucius Classroom, jointly developed 1 Portuguese-Chinese bilingual high school, and sent volunteer Chinese teachers to 25 countries, actively promoting Chinese language internationally. It has established Peru, Indonesia and Sino-Russian Far East research centers to develop regional studies platforms. It began recruiting international students in 1987, and all programs are open to them.