Beijing Normal University (simplified Chinese: 北京师范大学; traditional Chinese: 北京師範大學; pinyin: Běijīng Shīfàn Dàxué) is a university located in Beijing, P.R. China. For other uses, see Motto (disambiguation). ... The date of establishment or date of founding of an institution is the date on which that institution chooses to claim as its starting point. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... Simplified Chinese character (Simplified Chinese: or ; traditional Chinese: or ; pinyin: or ) is one of two standard sets of Chinese characters of the contemporary Chinese written language. ... Traditional Chinese characters refers to one of two standard sets of printed Chinese characters. ... Pinyin, more formally called Hanyu Pinyin (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; Pinyin: ), is the most common variant of Standard Mandarin romanization system in use. ... Peking redirects here. ...

Beijing Normal University grew out of the faculty of Education of the Metropolitan University founded in 1902. In 1923, it was named Beijing Normal University and was established as a teacher training institution. Today it's one of China's top comprehensive research-oriented universities.

Beijing Normal University is the first university in China that has been authorized to grant doctoral degree in educational technology.

BNU is a member university of the “Project 211” and “Education Revival Project.” The university is recognized as a key institution by both the Ministry of Education and Beijing Municipality and received financial support from the two institutions.

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Student profile

The university is on a semester system. Currently, 8400 undergraduate students and 8100 graduate students are enrolled. There are 10,000 adult students and 1700 international students.

Faculty profile

There are 1300 full-time faculty members (300 professors, 600 associate professors, and 400 lecturers).

See also

• List of universities in the People's Republic of China

This article is a list of universities in the Peoples Republic of China by province (22), autonomous region (5), municipality (4), and special administrative region (2). ...

External links

• BNU Official Site (english version)
• Directory of BNU Professors in the Beijing Municipality
• BNU Zhuhai Campus (Chinese version)