Nanning Normal University

Nanning Normal University is located in Nanning, capital of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, a core city of the Beibu Gulf Economic Zone and permanent host of the China-ASEAN Expo. It is an undergraduate teacher education institution operated by the autonomous region’s government.

A long history and deep foundations. Its origins date to the Guangxi Secondary School Teacher In-Service Training Institute established in Guilin in October 1953. Through several relocations and name changes, it has continually developed. Guangxi Teachers College was established in 1978 to provide full-time regular undergraduate education. It was renamed Nanning Teachers College the following year and Guangxi Teachers College in 1985. It began full-time master’s education in 1998. Guangxi Nanning Ethnic Normal School, founded in 1905, was incorporated in 2002. Wuhe Campus opened in 2015. In 2018, the Ministry of Education approved the name Nanning Normal University. Wuming Campus opened in 2019. Guangxi Institute of Education was incorporated in 2022. It was authorized to award doctoral degrees in 2024 and received authorization for a professional Doctor of Education degree in 2025, achieving a historic advance in its educational level.

Vigorous development and continuing change. Its five campuses—Wuhe, Wuming, Mingxiu, Changgang and Jianzheng—cover nearly 3400 mu. It has more than 28000 full-time regular undergraduates, over 3800 master’s students and over 400 international students. It has 22 schools, 2 research institutes and 1 periodical publishing house. Its library holds 3.0248 million printed books, 4.1793 million e-books and 42100 electronic journal titles. It has more than 1700 full-time teachers, including over 1500 with master’s degrees or above, over 730 with senior professional and technical titles, 48 doctoral supervisors and 779 master’s supervisors. Its staff have received more than 120 national, provincial or ministerial talent distinctions.

Steadily improving educational strength. It covers 9 categories: economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, management and art. It has 69 regular undergraduate programs, 17 first-level master’s degree fields and 15 professional master’s degree authorization fields. It has 2 academician workstations in Applied Mathematics and Surveying, Mapping and Geography.

Expanding educational exchange. It has partnerships with over 70 universities and educational institutions in more than 30 countries and regions, continually deepening their scope and fields. It jointly operates an undergraduate Electronic Information Engineering program with National Chi Nan University in Taiwan.

It has received approval to establish China’s first jointly operated education institution with Kazakhstan, the Eurasian Institute of Technology of Nanning Normal University, marking further international progress. It actively develops international student education and is an institution under cultivation as a study-in-Guangxi base in the China-ASEAN Education Opening-Up and Cooperation Pilot Zone. It receives Chinese Government Scholarship, Chinese Government Silk Road Scholarship and Guangxi Government Scholarship for ASEAN Students recipients. It successfully passed international student education quality accreditation, becoming the third Guangxi university to do so. Both scale and quality continue to improve, and its Study at Nanning Normal University identity is gradually taking shape.