Shanxi Normal University

Shanxi Normal University, founded in 1958, is located in Linfen City, an important birthplace of Chinese civilization. It is an important base for training teachers of basic education in Shanxi Province. Since its establishment nearly 60 years ago, the university has been constantly upgrading and upgrading. Now it has developed into a provincial key normal university with complete training system and distinctive school running characteristics.

The university has 15100 full-time undergraduates and 3200 postgraduates; There are 22 colleges, 60 undergraduate majors, 17 first-class master's degree authorized disciplines, 2 first-class doctoral degree authorized disciplines, 2 postdoctoral mobile stations, 1 Key Laboratory of the Ministry of education, 1 innovation team of the Ministry of education, 1 innovation discipline group of Shanxi service industry, 9 provincial key disciplines, 2 provincial collaborative innovation centers, and 4 key research bases of Humanities and Social Sciences in Shanxi Universities It undertakes the National Talent Training Mode Innovation Experimental Zone project and national college students' off campus practice education base project. It has 6 national characteristic majors, 3 provincial advantage majors, 14 provincial brand characteristic majors, 13 provincial excellent courses and 9 provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers.

The school has more than 1160 full-time teachers. Among them, there are 2 national outstanding young people, 1 academician distinguished professor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1 academician distinguished professor of the Chinese Academy of engineering, 1 distinguished professor of the thousand talents program, 4 candidates of the national million talents program, 5 candidates of the new century excellent talents support program of the Ministry of education, 29 outstanding young academic leaders of colleges and universities in Shanxi Province, 24 provincial famous teachers and 100 Talents Program of Shanxi Province Among them, there are 7 people, 6 young top-notch innovative talents and 14 academic and technological leaders in Shanxi Province.

The University attaches great importance to the undergraduate teaching work, always takes the teaching quality as the foundation of the University, continuously deepens the education and teaching reform, and comprehensively improves the quality of talent training. Since 2014, the implementation of "student-centered" classroom teaching reform. Since 2016, it has implemented the reform of talent training mode with classroom teaching reform as the breakthrough point, focusing on transforming the existing university classroom, comprehensively updating the education and teaching concept, striving to innovate the education and teaching methods, vigorously implementing the teaching reform and innovation plan, comprehensively deepening the practice teaching reform, Comprehensively Strengthening the innovation and entrepreneurship education of college students, and actively promoting the deep integration of information technology and education and teaching We should actively explore the training mode of elite talents. With the continuous improvement of students' learning ability, innovation ability and practical ability, the quality of education and teaching has been steadily improved, and has won the 2014 national teaching achievement award. The employment rate has been ranked in the forefront of colleges and universities in the province, and the graduates are widely welcomed and recognized by all walks of life.

The University adheres to the discipline construction as the leader, and constantly improves the level of discipline and scientific research. Since the 13th five year plan, the university has invested more than 50 million yuan in the construction of key disciplines. According to the overall discipline layout of "one body, two wings, and multi-point cooperation", the university has implemented the key discipline upgrading plan with the introduction of high-end talents and high-level teams as the breakthrough point. "One body" refers to teacher education as the main body, "two wings" refers to "drama and film" and "Chemistry" as the leading disciplines, radiating and leading the relevant disciplines of Da Wen and Dali, forming two dominant discipline groups. "Multi point collaboration" includes key disciplines and key disciplines. At present, it has established three subject groups: teacher education, cultural and creative industry, and molecular science; four key subjects: Chinese language and literature, Chinese history, biology, and mathematics; and six key subject directions: Marxist theory, physical education, industrial economics, physics, agricultural products processing and storage engineering, and physical geography.

The University attaches great importance to the supporting and leading role of high-level talents. During the 13th Five Year Plan period, it will vigorously cultivate and introduce a number of leading talents who are active in the academic frontier and meet the strategic needs of the country and Shanxi Province, and strive to build a number of high-level innovation teams.

The university has sponsored a number of newspapers and periodicals with wide influence at home and abroad. The Journal of Shanxi Normal University (SOCIAL SCIENCE EDITION) is one of the top 100 social science journals in Colleges and universities in China, the outstanding journals in North China and the first-class journals in Shanxi Province. The Chinese language journal and English weekly are well-known both at home and abroad as well as well-known "well-known trademarks of China".

The school is open to the outside world and carries out multi-level and wide-ranging educational exchanges and cooperation. It has established friendly cooperation and exchange relations with more than 40 foreign universities and academic groups, has increasingly frequent inter school exchanges and cooperation with domestic brother universities, and has increasingly extensive interaction and cooperation with all sectors of society.

The University attaches great importance to the construction of spiritual civilization and has been rated as a civilized and harmonious unit in Shanxi Province for many years in a row. It has successively won the honorary titles of national advanced unit of teachers' ethics construction, Shanxi "May 1" labor certificate and civilized and harmonious unit pacesetter. The social practice activities of college students have been commended by the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee, the Ministry of education and the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League for many years in a row.

The tide is flat, the banks are wide, and the wind is blowing. At present, with a broader vision, a more open attitude, a more persistent effort and a more solid pace, the staff of Shanxi Normal University are striving to build Shanxi Normal University into a high-level normal university with distinctive characteristics!

(data as of December 2016)

Shanxi Normal University

Nature of institutions: public

Education level: General Undergraduate

Location: Shanxi

Admission telephone: 0357-2051067

mail box: zsb@sxnu.edu.cn

Admission website: http://www.sxnu.edu.cn/