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Capital Normal University
Beijing, Beijing, China
Public SHANGHAI #100 · 2026Double First Class
About the university
Dating back to — when Tongzhou Normal University was established, Capital Normal University (CNU) was founded in —. 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 60 years, CNU has cultivated more than — senior talents and has been an important base for talent cultivation in Beijing.
Presently, CNU runs 17 first-class disciplines for doctoral degree, 101 doctoral programs, 14 postdoctoral research centers, 26 first-class disciplines for master’s degree, 142 master programs, 1 doctoral degree type and 16 master’s degree types. 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. As for research facilities, CNU has 1 national center for applied mathematics in Beijing, 1 national key laboratory cultivation base under province-ministry co-construction, 2 key laboratories under the Ministry of Education, 1 key research base for humanities and social science of higher education supervised by the Ministry of Education, 1 engineering science research center under the Ministry of Education, 1 key laboratory under the Ministry of Civil Affairs, 1 national experiment teaching demonstration center, 1 national teaching center for virtual simulation experiment, 1 national teaching program for virtual simulation experiment, 1 municipal teaching program for virtual simulation experiment, 1 national and international technological cooperation base, 1 scientific research base under the State Language Work Committee, 1 transformation base for technological achievements under the Ministry of Education, 1 municipal high-tech innovation center of higher education, 1 municipal laboratory, 11 municipal key laboratories, 1 municipal transformation platform for technological achievements, 1 municipal intellectual property pilot unit, 2 municipal engineering research centers of higher education, 1 municipal engineering laboratory, 1 municipal research base for collaboration and innovation of social science and natural science, 4 municipal off-campus talent cultivation bases of higher education, 7 municipal demonstrating centers for experiment teaching, and 14 research centers, institutes and laboratories set by province and ministry.
CNU boasts of 31 faculties and centers, 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 Capital Institute of Basic Education Development and Research, 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 College of Geospatial Information Science and Technology, 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 College of Traditional Chinese Culture Education, the Research Center for Aesthetic Education, the Institute of Cultural Studies, the Academy for Interdisciplinary Studies and so on. It also has the Teaching and Research Department of College English and the Teaching and Research Department of Physical Education. CNU offers 1 major for junior college education, and 54 majors for undergraduate education. There are totally — students, among whom 193 are full-time through-trained students, 131 are junior college students, — are undergraduates, — are postgraduates, — are PhD students, — are adult education students and — are international students. An all-round and multi-level education system covering junior college education, undergraduate education, postgraduate education, doctoral education, post-doctoral education, full-time education, adult education and international education has been formed in CNU.
With a teaching staff of —, CNU now has — full-time teachers, among whom 394 have a full senior professional title, 657 have an associate senior professional title, — have a PhD degree, and 475 have a master’s degree. Those with a master’s degree or higher account for 96% of the total. At present, CNU is home to a number of influential experts and scholars at home and abroad, such as academicians of the Chinese Academy of Science, the Chinese Academy of Engineering, the Russian Academy of Engineering and the Russian Academy of Natural Science, leading scholars included in the — Talents Program, excellent young scholars included in the — Talents Program, winners of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, and scholars included in the China Hundred-Thousand-Ten Thousand Program, the Beijing Scholars Plan, Capital Science and Technology Leading Talents Cultivation Program, the Beijing Distinguished Professors Support Plan, the Beijing High-level Talents Introduction and Funding Plan, the Beijing Innovation Team Construction Plan, the Science and Technology New Stars of Beijing, the Young Talents Cultivation Plan, and the Great Wall Scholars Cultivation Plan. Among CNU’s teachers, there are 5 members of the Discipline Evaluation Group of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council, 11 members of the Discipline Teaching Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education, 5 members of the National Cultural Masters and the Four Batches Talents, 15 members of the Beijing Cultural Masters and the Four Batches Talents, and 3 innovation teams under the Ministry of Education. Another 65 teachers have won Zeng Xianzi Teachers’ Award, Henry Fok Young Teachers’ Teaching Award and Scientific Research Award.
In —, CNU was declared as Outstanding University in Undergraduate Teaching in the undergraduate teaching evaluation conducted by the Ministry of Education. So far, CNU has 7 national characteristic majors, 10 municipal characteristic majors, 6 national teaching teams, 9 municipal teaching teams, 8 municipal high-quality undergraduate programs, 8 pieces of municipal high-quality undergraduate courseware, 3 national innovation and experiment zones for talents training mode, 1 municipal innovation pilot zone for talents training mode, 1 national off-campus practice and education base for college students, and 2 municipal demonstration campus innovation and practice bases of higher education. As for courses, CNU has 12 national excellent courses, 29 municipal excellent courses and 1 national bilingual teaching demonstration course. As for textbooks, CNU has 20 textbooks for the 11th Five-year Plan of the Ministry of Education, 5 national excellent textbooks, 1 municipal classical textbook of higher education, 106 municipal excellent textbooks of higher education and 16 national textbooks for undergraduate education in the 12th Five-year Plan. CNU also has excellent open classes, including 1 national excellent video open class, 6 national excellent resource sharing classes, 8 national excellent resource sharing classes for teaching and education and 10 national first-class undergraduate classes. In addition, 2 teachers in CNU hold the National Outstanding Teacher Award and 34 hold the Beijing Municipal Outstanding Teacher Award. In —, CNU was included in the National Innovative Experiment Program for College Students. In the evaluation of outstanding teaching achievements, CNU won 3 first prizes and 13 second prizes (including cooperative programs) of the National Outstanding Teaching Achievement Award and 117 prizes of the Beijing Municipal Outstanding Teaching Achievement Award. CNU has 10 programs included in the Beijing Municipal Undergraduate Teaching Reform and Innovation Program. Its students have won many awards in national and Beijing competitions such as the Challenge Cup, mathematical modeling and computer application contest, electronic contest, English speech, etc. Last but not the least, it has achieved remarkable results in cultivating high-level talents. It has won the National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award twice, the nomination of the National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award for 8 times and the Beijing Municipal Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award for 9 times.