About the university
Shandong Normal University (SDNU) is located in the historical and cultural city, Jinan, the capital city of Shandong Province. Based on Qilu culture and humanity of Spring city, it adheres to the school spirit of “Respect for the virtuous, Strive for success” and the motto of “Uphold morality, fortify your dream, pursue knowledge, and then put them into practice”. Through consciously inheriting and innovating Qilu culture, and making efforts to highlight Teacher’s Educating Feature, the university has developed into a comprehensive and advanced normal university and gained an excellent social reputation with various subjects and majors, a complete degree system, and abundant teaching talents during the past 70 years.
The history of SDNU can be traced back to the Normal School of Ancient Shandong University in —.In October —, built with the education school of the original East China University and the Administrative Cadre School of Shandong Province, Shandong Normal College became the first undergraduate college of Shandong Province since the founding of new China.
In —, schools of physics, chemistry and biology of Qilu University were integrated into our university. In September —, some agencies and departments moved to the city of Liaocheng, and then were relocated to Jinan in April —. In March —, the university was identified as a provincial key institution of higher education; in August of the same year, the university’s name was changed to Shandong Normal University.
In November —, the University was included in the first batch of famous universities with characteristics aiming to cultivate application-oriented talents in Shandong Province. In March —, the University was approved as an institution of higher education built by both Shandong Province and the Ministry of Education.
SDNU has two campuses in Lixia District and Changqing District which cover a land area of about 267 hectares and a building area of — square meters. It has established 46 research and training institutions in national level and above provincial and ministerial level, including one National Virtual Simulation Experimental Teaching Center, one National Experimental Demonstration Teaching Center, one Key Lab of Ministry of Education (MOE), one MOE Engineering Research Center, sixProvincial Key Laboratories, eight Provincial Key University Laboratories for the 12th 5-year plan, seven Provincial Experimental Demonstration Teaching Centers, two Provincial Collaborative Innovation Centers for Higher Education, and so on. The library has a collection of — volumes of books and periodicals as well as 60 TB electronic resources.
SDNU contains 25 schools, 84 undergraduate programs, 9 post-doctoral research stations, 10 first-level disciplines for doctorate degree granting, 29 first-level disciplines for master’s degree granting and 15 types of professional degree authorization which cover the top ten subjects and disciplines. It ranks as the top of all provincial colleges and universities in the amount of subjects and disciplines. Two disciplines named Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature and Principles of Education are national key ones; four disciplines are under project-oriented construction of first-class discipline; three specialties are approved as key disciplines of high-level application-oriented construction of Shandong Province; one discipline is taken into the Essential Science Indicators (ESI) database, ranking in the top 1%. In the third national discipline assessment (—), SDNU got the best grade in provincial universities in that 18 disciplines were put into evaluation, among which 11 disciplines were at the top 50%. At present, there are — full-time students, including — graduate students, 211 overseas students, and — adult education students.
The University has founded an Elementary Education Group. Middle school, the second middle school, and a primary school affiliated to SDNU are provincial standardized schools, which have been successively and respectively awarded in the Top 100 Chinese Schools, Top 10 Schools in Science, Technology, Education and Innovation, the First Batch of Specialist Schools of Mental Health Education, the First Batch of National Schools Good at Playing Football, and so on. Lishan College of SDNU is a full-time normal junior college approved by the Ministry of Education, and the Shandong Provincial People’s Government in —, which moved to Qingzhou in —. At present, the college has — students, 456 staff, and 44 undergraduate majors and specialties. During the past eight years, it has cultivated more than — graduates and won a good social reputation.
SDNU has participated in “Quality Project” of the Ministry of Education. Four people are awarded with the National Distinguished Teacher. The university has been honored with 14 National Teaching Achievements Awards, built two national teaching groups, carried out one project of national comprehensive reform pilot, nine national specialty construction sites, four national excellent courses, four national sharing courses, one national demonstration course of bilingual teaching, one national trial plot of talent training, one off-campus practical education center for college students, and 730 projects of National Innovation and Entrepreneurship of college students and compiled six textbooks for the 12th 5-year plan. It is the first university to carry out a “national training plan”, which has received the honorable title of Advanced Unit of Enrollment and College Graduates Employment. The university has won a gold award and been honored as Advanced Group in “Internet Plus” – an Innovation and Entrepreneurship Contest for College Students - for two consecutive years. An undergraduate team won the award of “Technology and Innovation Team in Memory of Deng Xiaoping” and obtained the First Prize and Outstanding Organization Award of National Smart City Technology and Creative Design Competition. In —, SDNU was evaluated to be excellent in the national evaluation of undergraduate teaching conducted by the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China.