About Us

Located in Nanjing, the ancient capital of six dynasties in Chinese history, Nanjing Normal University (NNU) is one of the provincial key universities of “Project 211” under the supervision of the Ministry of Education and the Jiangsu Provincial Government. Its origin can be traced back to 1902 with the establishment of Sanjiang Normal College, as one of the cradles of China’s higher normal schools. NNU has three campuses: Xianlin Campus, Suiyuan Campus, and Zijin Campus, among which Suiyuan Campus is renowned as “the most beautiful campus of the Orient”. NNU now consists of 28 schools and 2 independent colleges with an enrollment of 18,369 undergraduates, 11,039 graduate students and 1,525 doctoral candidates. It also has 3,247 faculty and staff. The NNU Library has a total collection of around 3.81 million volumes and 152 electronic databases.