Beijing Normal University

Beijing Normal University (BNU, Chinese: 北京师范大学) is a public research university in the Haidian district of Beijing, China, directly affiliated with the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China and co-funded by the Ministry of Education and the Beijing Municipal People's Government.北京师范大学（英文简称 BNU）是位于中国北京市海淀区的一所公立研究型大学，直属于中华人民共和国教育部，由教育部与北京市人民政府共同建设。

The university traces its origin to the Normal College of the Imperial University of Peking, founded in 1902, became an independent institution in 1908, and adopted its present name in 1923 as the first normal university in Chinese history.学校的前身是 1902 年创立的京师大学堂师范馆，1908 年独立设校，1923 年更名为北京师范大学，成为中国历史上第一所师范大学。

It is a Double First-Class Class A university that was formerly part of Project 985 and Project 211, is known for teacher education, education science and the basic arts and sciences, and was placed joint 237th in the QS World University Rankings 2027 with about 23,800 full-time students across its campuses.该校是「双一流」A 类建设高校，同属原「985 工程」与「211 工程」，以教师教育、教育科学和文理基础学科见长，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中并列第 237 位，各校区全日制在校生约 2.38 万人。

History

• The imperial government founded the Imperial University of Peking in 1898 during the Hundred Days' Reform, an attempt to modernise Chinese learning after the country's defeat in the First Sino-Japanese War of 1894 and 1895.1898 年，清政府在戊戌变法期间创办京师大学堂，试图在 1894 至 1895 年甲午战争失败后推动中国教育的近代化。
• Its direct precursor, the Normal College of the Imperial University of Peking, opened on 17 December 1902 under the official Zhang Baixi, who had been appointed to rebuild the Imperial University after the upheavals of 1900.该校的直接前身京师大学堂师范馆于 1902 年 12 月 17 日开学，由受命在 1900 年庚子事变后重建京师大学堂的管学大臣张百熙主持。
• In May 1908 the normal division was renamed the Supreme Normal School of Peking and moved to the Changdian district, the moment at which teacher training in China became an independent branch of higher education.1908 年 5 月，师范馆改称京师优级师范学堂并迁往厂甸，标志着中国高等师范教育自此独立设校。
• After the fall of the Qing dynasty the institution became the Beijing Higher Normal School in May 1912, one of the six national higher normal schools of the early Republic of China.清朝覆亡后，该校于 1912 年 5 月改为北京高等师范学校，是民国初年六所国立高等师范学校之一。
• In 1920 the school opened a graduate research programme in education that admitted graduates and outstanding third-year students, the first examination-based postgraduate admission in Chinese higher education.1920 年，学校开办教育研究科，招收毕业生与优秀三年级学生，开中国高等学校通过考试招收研究生之先河。
• It was formally approved as the National Beijing Normal University in 1923, the first body in China to bear the designation normal university, while the Beijing Women's Higher Normal School became the National Beijing Women's Normal University in 1924.1923 年，学校经批准改为国立北京师范大学校，成为中国第一所以「师范大学」命名的高校；北京女子高等师范学校亦于 1924 年改为国立北京女子师范大学校。
• During the political turbulence of the late 1920s the university was reorganised repeatedly, becoming the Normal Department of the Metropolitan University in 1927 and the First Normal College of National Beiping University in 1928 under a short-lived university district system.1920 年代末政局动荡，学校几经改组：1927 年成为京师大学校师范部，1928 年在短暂的大学区制下成为国立北平大学第一师范学院。
• In July 1931 the National Beiping Normal University merged with the National Beiping Women's Normal University, creating a single institution with colleges of education, letters and science and a research institute.1931 年 7 月，国立北平师范大学与国立北平女子师范大学合并，组成下设教育学院、文学院、理学院及研究院的统一学府。
• After the Marco Polo Bridge Incident in July 1937 the university moved to Xi'an and joined the National Xi'an Temporary University together with National Beiping University, the National Beiyang Institute of Technology and the Beiping Research Academy.1937 年 7 月卢沟桥事变后，学校迁往西安，与国立北平大学、国立北洋工学院及北平研究院等组成国立西安临时大学。
• In April 1938 the temporary university relocated to Hanzhong and was renamed the National Northwestern Associated University, in which the normal section became its College of Education and later its Normal College.1938 年 4 月，临时大学迁至汉中并改称国立西北联合大学，其师范部分先后成为教育学院与师范学院。
• The Associated University dissolved in August 1938 and the normal college continued as an independent National Northwestern Normal College, which was ordered to move to Lanzhou in Gansu province in 1940.1938 年 8 月西北联合大学解体，师范学院独立为国立西北师范学院，并于 1940 年奉命迁往甘肃省兰州市。
• After the end of the war the staff and students returned to Beiping in stages from 1946, and the National Beiping Normal College reopened in Changdian with 14 departments and 1,471 enrolled students.抗战结束后，师生自 1946 年起分批复员北平，国立北平师范学院在厂甸复校，设 14 个系科，在校生 1,471 人。
• In October 1948 the government approved the restoration of the full university title and the college again became the National Beiping Normal University before the city passed peacefully to communist control in early 1949.1948 年 10 月，当局批准恢复大学名称，学校复称国立北平师范大学；1949 年初北平和平易手。
• The institution was renamed Beijing Normal University in September 1949 after Beiping was renamed Beijing, and the education departments of Peking University and Nankai University were merged into it by the end of that year.1949 年 9 月北平改称北京后，学校相应改名为北京师范大学；同年底，北京大学与南开大学的教育系并入该校。
• The nationwide restructuring of 1952 brought the main body of Fu Jen Catholic University into Beijing Normal University, and the historian Chen Yuan, formerly Fu Jen's president, was appointed president of the enlarged university.1952 年全国院系调整时，辅仁大学主体并入北京师范大学，原辅仁大学校长、历史学家陈垣出任合并后学校的校长。
• In 1959 the Ministry of Education listed the university among twenty national key universities, and it joined Project 211 in 1996 and Project 985 in 2002 in the following decades of state investment.1959 年，教育部将该校列入全国二十所重点大学；此后又于 1996 年入选「211 工程」、2002 年入选「985 工程」。
• In 2007 the university became a pilot site of the state-funded free teacher education policy, restoring the title of normal student and abolishing tuition for those who committed to teaching.2007 年，学校成为国家免费师范生政策的重点试点院校，恢复师范生称号，并对承诺从教者免收学费。
• The university celebrated its centenary on 8 September 2002, when the central government and the Beijing municipality agreed to co-fund it with a special allocation of 1.2 billion yuan shared equally between the two.2002 年 9 月 8 日，学校举行百年校庆，中央与北京市决定共建北京师范大学，并拨付 12 亿元专项资助，由教育部与北京市各承担一半。
• In 2017 the university entered the Double First-Class Construction as a Class A institution with 11 disciplines selected, and in 2022 a second round expanded its selected disciplines to 12.2017 年，学校以 A 类身份进入「双一流」建设名单，共有 11 个学科入选；2022 年第二轮建设将该校入选学科扩大到 12 个。
• A Zhuhai campus in Guangdong province, built with the provincial and municipal governments, was formally approved by the Ministry of Education in April 2019 and admitted its first students the same year, completing the university's one body two wings structure.位于广东的珠海校区由省政府与珠海市政府共建，2019 年 4 月获教育部正式批复并当年开始招生，学校由此形成「一体两翼」的办学格局。

Academics

• Beijing Normal University is organised into one education faculty, 23 schools and colleges, two departments and 37 research institutes, with programmes spanning every discipline category in China except military science.北京师范大学现设 1 个学部、23 个学院、2 个系与 37 个研究院（所），学科覆盖除军事学以外的全部学科门类。
• It offers 77 undergraduate programmes, 36 first-level master's degree programmes, 34 first-level doctoral programmes and 30 postdoctoral research stations.学校设有 77 个本科专业、36 个一级学科硕士点、34 个一级学科博士点与 30 个博士后科研流动站。
• In the fourth round of national first-level discipline evaluation published in 2017, six of its disciplines earned the top A+ grade, namely education, psychology, Chinese language and literature, Chinese history, drama and film studies and geography.在 2017 年公布的第四轮全国一级学科评估中，该校教育学、心理学、中国语言文学、中国史、戏剧与影视学与地理学 6 个学科获评最高的 A+。
• The same evaluation awarded two A grades and seven A- grades, giving the university a set of top-rated disciplines that ranked sixth among Chinese universities.同一轮评估中该校另有 2 个学科获评 A、7 个学科获评 A-，A 类学科总数居中国高校第六位。
• As of March 2025 the Beijing campus enrolled 9,541 full-time undergraduates and 12,680 full-time postgraduates, while the Zhuhai campus enrolled 7,002 full-time undergraduates and 3,616 full-time postgraduates.截至 2025 年 3 月，北京校区共有全日制本科生 9,541 人、全日制研究生 12,680 人；珠海校区有全日制本科生 7,002 人、全日制研究生 3,616 人。
• The university employs 2,637 full-time teachers, of whom 2,061 hold senior professional titles, together with seven academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences or the Chinese Academy of Engineering.该校有专任教师 2,637 人，其中 2,061 人具有高级专业技术职务，并有中国科学院或中国工程院院士 7 人。
• Its research infrastructure includes four State Key Laboratories, one national engineering research centre, ten key laboratories of the Ministry of Education and a national field scientific observation station.科研平台包括 4 个国家重点实验室、1 个国家工程研究中心、10 个教育部重点实验室与 1 个国家野外科学观测研究站。
• The university library holds more than 7.78 million printed volumes and over 9.35 million electronic books, serving both the Beijing and Zhuhai campuses.学校图书馆馆藏印本文献 778 万余册、电子图书 935 万余册，服务北京与珠海两个校区。
• It was among the first Chinese universities to admit international students and runs Princeton in Beijing, a long-established Chinese language programme operated with Princeton University.该校是中国最早接收留学生的高校之一，并与普林斯顿大学合作举办开办多年的中文项目「普林斯顿在北京」。
• The university hosts the secretariat of the BRICS Universities League and takes part in an Erasmus+ joint master's consortium with partners in Austria, Hungary, Germany, India and Finland.该校设有金砖国家大学联盟秘书处，并与奥地利、匈牙利、德国、印度和芬兰的伙伴院校共同参与 Erasmus+ 联合硕士项目。
• Its Faculty of Education is a national leader, and in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025 education and training at the university placed first in mainland China, second in the Asia-Pacific and seventh in the world.教育学部在全国居于领先地位；在 2025 年 QS 世界大学学科排名中，该校教育与培训学科位列中国内地第一、亚太第二、世界第七。
• Beijing Normal University Press publishes academic monographs and teaching materials, and the university operates five national key research bases for textbook construction.北京师范大学出版社出版学术专著与教材，学校并建有 5 个国家教材建设重点研究基地。
• Forty-six of its undergraduate programmes have been recognised as national first-class programme construction points, and six as Beijing municipal first-class points.该校有 46 个本科专业入选国家级一流本科专业建设点，另有 6 个入选北京市级建设点。
• Its life and Earth sciences are supported by field stations and a collaborative innovation centre recognised at national level, and nine discipline innovation bases host international talent introduction.其生命科学与地球科学依托野外台站与国家协同创新中心支撑，并建有 9 个高等学校学科创新引智基地。
• The university is affiliated with an extensive network of attached schools, among them the Experimental High School Attached to Beijing Normal University and the High School Affiliated to Beijing Normal University.该校拥有庞大的附属学校体系，其中包括北京师范大学附属实验中学与北京师范大学附属中学。
• Since 2018 the university has been one of the Chinese universities empowered to review and award its own degrees, having already gained the right to approve new undergraduate programmes in 2002.2018 年，学校成为首批可开展学位授权自主审核的高校之一；此前已于 2002 年获得自主设置本科专业的审批权。
• Its national high-end think tank and its research bases in the humanities and social sciences give the university a prominent role in Chinese education policy research.该校的国家高端智库与人文社会科学研究基地，使其在中国教育政策研究中占据重要地位。
• The university maintains a graduate school system covering the arts, sciences, education, psychology, geography and engineering, training doctoral students across more than one hundred degree programmes.学校实行覆盖文科、理科、教育、心理、地理与工程等领域的学位与研究生教育体系，在一百多个学位项目中培养博士生。

Campus

• The main campus lies in the Haidian district of north-west Beijing at 19 Xinjiekou Outer Street, between the second and third ring roads and nearer to Tiananmen Square than any other Haidian university.主校区位于北京西北部海淀区新街口外大街 19 号，地处二环与三环之间，是海淀区各高校中距天安门最近的一所。
• The North Taipingzhuang main campus covers 1,048 mu, roughly 69.9 hectares, and the wider Beijing campuses in Haidian, Xicheng and Changping occupy about 794,000 square metres in total.校本部（北太平庄校区）占地 1,048 亩，约合 69.9 公顷；海淀、西城与昌平的北京校区合计占地约 79.4 万平方米。
• The present Haidian campus was laid out from 1954 and expanded greatly after the 2002 centenary, with new residences, canteens, the Qiujirui Gymnasium in 2008 and the rear main building in 2011.现海淀校区自 1954 年起规划兴建，2002 年百年校庆后大幅扩建，相继建成学生公寓、食堂，2008 年建成邱季瑞体育馆、2011 年建成后主楼。
• A campus in Changping in the northern suburbs, completed in 2018, houses doctoral students, while the former Fu Jen site beside Shichahai has served as the northern campus since 1952.位于北郊昌平的校区于 2018 年建成，供博士生使用；自 1952 年起，什刹海畔的原辅仁大学校址一直作为该校的北校（辅仁校园）。
• The Zhuhai campus in Guangdong province, approved in April 2019, extends the university into southern China and is joined by an affiliated kindergarten and a group of attached schools.2019 年 4 月获批的广东珠海校区将学校延伸至华南地区，并配套建设附属幼儿园与附属学校群。
• The campus combines surviving 1950s buildings of Russian influence with a wave of modern construction since 2002, including the Qiujirui Gymnasium, the Jingshi Building and new teaching blocks.校园内既有留存至今、带有苏式风格的 1950 年代建筑，也有 2002 年以来的一批现代建筑，包括邱季瑞体育馆、京师大厦与新教学楼群。
• In 2008 the Haidian campus housed the United States Olympic team during the Beijing Olympic Games, and its sports and arts facilities are shared with the surrounding community.2008 年北京奥运会期间，海淀校区曾接待美国奥运代表团，其体育与艺术设施也向周边社区开放。
• A campus sculpture called the BNU Star commemorates the minor planet 8050, named after the university, which was discovered by a research group led by its astronomy graduate Zhu Jin.校园内竖立着「北师大星」纪念雕塑，纪念由该校天文系毕业生朱进领导的研究小组发现的、以学校命名的第 8050 号小行星。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 the university is placed joint 237th in the world, and this position is taken from the official QS global list.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，该校位列世界并列第 237 位，此名次以 QS 官方榜单为准。^[1]
• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 places it 125th in the world, its strongest showing among the four major global rankings.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将其列为世界第 125 位，是其在四大全球榜单中的最好名次。
• The Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026 places it in the 101 to 150 band, confirming its standing among China's leading research universities.2026 年世界大学学术排名将其列入 101 至 150 区间，印证其作为中国领先研究型大学的地位。
• The U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking for 2027 places it 135th in the world, and the university is consistently placed among the top universities of mainland China.2027 年《美国新闻与世界报道》最佳全球大学排名将其列为世界第 135 位，该校长期位居中国内地顶尖高校之列。
• In the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025 it ranked first in mainland China, second in the Asia-Pacific and seventh in the world in education and training.在 2025 年 QS 世界大学学科排名中，该校教育与培训学科位列中国内地第一、亚太第二、世界第七。
• The OpenAlex database credits the university with 115,452 works and 6,703,479 citations, one of the largest research outputs in China.OpenAlex 数据库为该校收录 115,452 篇成果、被引用 6,703,479 次，是中国科研产出规模最大的高校之一。
• Twelve of its disciplines were selected for the second round of Double First-Class Construction in 2022, and it retains Class A status within that national scheme.2022 年第二轮「双一流」建设中该校有 12 个学科入选，并在该国家建设序列中保持 A 类身份。
• Its graduates are highly sought after by employers, entering the global top 200 in the QS graduate employability rankings published in 2017.该校毕业生广受雇主青睐，在 2017 年发布的 QS 毕业生就业竞争力排名中进入全球前 200。
• Within mainland China the university is generally ranked among the top dozen universities and is widely regarded as the leading teacher-training institution in the country.在中国内地，该校通常位列高校前十几名，并被普遍视为全国师范教育的领军学府。
• It is one of the Chinese universities with the largest number of top-rated disciplines, a position that sustains its reputation in education, psychology and the basic sciences.该校是中国 A 类学科数量最多的高校之一，这一地位支撑了其在教育学、心理学与基础科学领域的声誉。

Student life

• The university's motto, composed by the calligrapher and scholar Qi Gong, is Xue Wei Ren Shi, Xing Wei Shi Fan, meaning learn to be a teacher and act as a model.该校校训由书画家、学者启功拟定，即「学为人师，行为世范」，意为所学要为世人之师、所行应为世人之范。
• Its emblem centres on the wooden bell and golden tone motif drawn from the Analects, symbolising the university's mission of education and moral instruction.校徽以取自《论语》的「木铎金声」为核心图案，象征学校所承担的教育教化使命。
• The anniversary day is 8 September, and the centenary was celebrated in 2002 at the Great Hall of the People with a speech by the then Chinese president Jiang Zemin.校庆日为每年 9 月 8 日，2002 年百年校庆在人民大会堂举行，时任中国国家主席江泽民出席并讲话。
• Students run a wide range of societies in sport, music, drama, debate and volunteering, and the campus forum Dandan Net became a focus of student discussion and rights activity in the 2000s.学生社团涵盖体育、音乐、戏剧、辩论与志愿服务等领域；校园论坛蛋蛋网在 2000 年代成为学生讨论与维权活动的重要平台。
• The university has a strong volleyball and gymnastics tradition associated with the Olympic champions Lang Ping in volleyball and Chen Yibing in gymnastics.该校排球与体操传统深厚，奥运冠军郎平（排球）与陈一冰（体操）皆出自此校。
• Mandarin and free teacher education give campus life a distinctly pedagogical character, with students trained for teaching posts across China under the state-supported scheme.对外汉语教学与免费师范生教育赋予校园生活鲜明的师范色彩，学生在国家资助的计划下接受面向全中国教学岗位的培养。
• The Zhuhai campus supports its own student community, and the one body two wings structure links academic life in Beijing and Guangdong across a single institution.珠海校区拥有相对独立的学生社区，这一「一体两翼」格局将北京与广东两地的学术生活联结在同一所学校之内。

Notable people

• Zhang Baixi, minister of education in the late Qing, rebuilt the Imperial University of Peking in 1902 and established the Normal College that became the university's direct ancestor.张百熙是清末管学大臣，1902 年重建京师大学堂并创办师范馆，该师范馆即北京师范大学的直接前身。
• Chen Yuan, the historian and former president of Fu Jen Catholic University, led Beijing Normal University from 1952 until 1971 and shaped its academic identity after the restructuring.陈垣是历史学家、原辅仁大学校长，自 1952 年起执掌北京师范大学至 1971 年，塑造了院系调整后学校的学术品格。
• Qi Gong, the Manchu calligrapher and scholar, taught at the university for more than seven decades and composed its celebrated motto.启功是满族书画家、学者，在校执教七十余年，并拟定了该校著名的校训。
• Li Jinxi, a linguist and one of the founders of modern Chinese language studies, was a long-serving professor at the university.黎锦熙是语言学家、中国现代语言学的奠基人之一，长期担任该校教授。
• Mo Yan, the novelist who received the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature, studied at the university, which counts him among its most distinguished alumni.莫言是 2012 年诺贝尔文学奖得主，曾就读于该校，是学校最杰出的校友之一。
• Liu Xiaobo, a writer and former lecturer at the university, was awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize and was a doctoral alumnus of the institution.刘晓波是作家、原该校讲师，2010 年诺贝尔和平奖得主，也是该校的博士校友。
• Lang Ping, an Olympic gold medallist with China's women's volleyball team in 1984, graduated from the university and later coached the United States national team.郎平是 1984 年奥运会中国女排金牌得主，毕业于该校，后曾出任美国国家女排主教练。
• Chen Yibing, a gymnast who won Olympic gold medals in 2008 and 2012, is a graduate of the university.陈一冰是体操运动员，曾获 2008 年与 2012 年奥运会金牌，为该校毕业生。
• Xu Jialu, a linguist and former president of the university, served as vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress in the 2000s.许嘉璐是语言学家、曾任该校校长，并于 2000 年代出任全国人民代表大会常务委员会副委员长。
• Wang Dezhao, a physicist and founder of underwater acoustics in China, was a university academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences honoured with the French Legion of Honour.汪德昭是物理学家、中国水声学奠基人，为该校中国科学院院士，曾获法国荣誉军团勋章。
• Yuan Guiren, a professor of philosophy and former vice president of the university, served as Minister of Education of the People's Republic of China during the 2010s.袁贵仁是哲学教授、曾任该校副校长，并在 2010 年代出任中华人民共和国教育部部长。
• Gu Mingyuan, a senior professor of education, is regarded as one of the founders of comparative education research in China and has advised national education policy.顾明远是教育学资深教授，被视为中国比较教育学科的奠基人之一，并曾为国家教育政策提供咨询。