Capital Normal University

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Dating back to 1905 when Tongzhou Normal University was established, Capital Normal University (CNU) was founded in 1954. As a top university included in China’s Double First-Class Initiative and a province-ministry co-constructed university co-constructed by Beijing and the Ministry of Education, CNU provides various disciplines including literature, science, engineering, management, law, education, foreign language and art. Over the past 70 years, CNU has cultivated more than 200,000 senior talents and has been an important base for talent cultivation in Beijing. Capital Normal University covers an area of approximately 1131,000 square meters. The teaching and research conditions of the university are excellent, and the total assets of teaching and research instruments and equipment amount to over 1,906,528,800 RMB. The library has a collection of more than 17,437,000 various books and documents, with a solid foundation for its collection, making it one of the key document resource libraries in the country. CNU boasts of 30 Colleges(Departments), namely the School of Literature, the School of History, the College of Political Science and Law, the College of Education, the College of Teacher Education, the School of Psychology,the College of Foreign Languages, the College of Marxism Education, the School of Management, the Music College, the College of Fine Arts, the School of Mathematical Sciences, the Department of Physics, the Department of Chemistry, the College of Life Sciences, the College of Resource Environment and Tourism, the Information Engineering College, the Elementary Education College, the College of Preschool Education, the Program in General Education, the School of Continuing Education, the Jingjiang College, the College of International Education, the Research Institute of the Culture of Calligraphy of China, the Honors College, the Academy for Interdisciplinary Studies, the Research Institute for Arts and Aesthetic Education, the Institute of Global and Area Studies, the Teaching and Research Department of College English and Department of Physical Education. Presently, CNU runs 19 first-class disciplines for doctoral degree, 15 postdoctoral research centers, 26 first-class disciplines for master’s degree, 4 professional doctoral degree categories, 20 professional master’s degree categories. CNU has independently formulated 21degree-awarding second-level programs beyond the catalog of the Ministry of Education and 9 degree-awarding interdisciplinary programs. CNU also has 4 national key disciplines, 1 discipline under national key cultivation, 8 municipal first-class key disciplines, 12 municipal second-class key disciplines, 2 first-class disciplines under municipal key construction, 13 second-class disciplines under municipal key construction, 4 first-class disciplines under municipal key cultivation and 2 municipal key interdisciplines.