Hefei Normal University

Hefei Normal University (HFNU) is located in Hefei, the capital city of Anhui Province. Its predecessor was Anhui Institute of Education, which was founded in 1955 and was restructured into a provincial full-time regular undergraduate institution in 2007. The university is an institution authorized to confer master's degrees, one of the first batch of implementation units for the exemplary training projects of the "National Training Program" in China, one of the first batch of pilot units for the "Outstanding Teacher Training Program", one of the first batch of universities in Anhui Province for the construction of "local application-oriented high-level universities", and a pilot university for the comprehensive reform of "Three-Whole Education" in Anhui Province. HFNU currently has three campuses, covering an area of 86.33 hectares. There are more than 1,200 faculty and staff on the job, among whom 139 are professors and 324 are associate professors. Currently, there are 37 talents at or above the provincial level, including 1 talent selected for the National Hundred-Thousand-Ten Thousand Talents Project and 1 person enjoying special government allowances from the State Council. The university now has 14 colleges, 3 authorized master's degree programs in professional fields, 17 enrollment areas for professional degrees, and 58 undergraduate majors. At present, there are more than 20,000 full-time undergraduate students, postgraduate students and international students. There are 23 national and provincial first-class majors, 3 national first-class courses, 226 provincial first-class courses, and 9 virtual simulation experiment teaching projects. There are 29 national and provincial outstanding talent cultivation plan projects, 2 provincial talent cultivation innovation experimental areas, 10 provincial comprehensive reform pilot projects for majors, 8 provincial demonstration experiment (training) centers, 38 provincial school-enterprise cooperation practical education bases, and 4 provincial first-class undergraduate talent demonstration and leading bases. In recent years, it has won 5 second prizes of the National Teaching Achievement Awards and 65 provincial teaching achievement awards, among which 22 are special prizes and first prizes. HFNU has established exchange and cooperation relations with more than 10 universities in countries such as Ireland, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Thailand, Malaysia, Spain and the Taiwan region of China. Currently, the international students recruited and trained by the university cover postgraduate students, undergraduate students and language students. Adhering to the fine tradition of "constantly striving for self-improvement and the pursuit of excellence", HFNU aims to fully build itself into a local application-oriented high-level university with distinctive features. (Updated in October 2024)