Beijing Normal University
北京师范大学 | ||
Hanyu Pinyin | Běijīng Shīfàn Dàxué |
Beijing Normal University (BNU) is a public university in Beijing, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education of China, and co-funded by the Ministry of Education and the Beijing Municipal People's Government. The university is part of Project 211, Project 985, and the Double First-Class Construction.[3]
History
The university grew out of the Faculty of Education at the Imperial University of Peking, which had been founded by the Guangxu Emperor after the Hundred Days' Reform in 1898. In 1908, the Faculty of Education was named the "Imperial Capital School of Supreme Teacher Training" and separated from the Imperial University of Peking which subsequently became Peking University.
In 1912, after the
When the
Historically, students at Beijing Normal University have played major roles in patriotic, democratic and other social movements, including the
Present
Beijing Normal University was selected to be a
During its centennial celebration in 2002 an asteroid discovered in 1996 was named after the university as
After a special visit by Premier Wen Jiabao to the university on May 4, 2006, the Chinese government implemented a tuition-waiver policy for teacher training programs in six normal universities that are supervised by the Ministry of Education, including Beijing Normal University.
The university has a strong emphasis on increasing educational equity. Its 2009 demographic data shows that 40% of its enrolled students were from western China, one third were from rural areas and a quarter were from low-income families. Ethnic minorities comprised more than 10% of students.[9]
Academics
As of the year 2020, the university has 74 undergraduate degree programs, 185 master programs and 142 doctoral programs. Sixteen of them are honored as "national key disciplines", including 5 general disciplines and 11 specialized disciplines, which are recognized among the top ranked programs in China:
National Key Disciplines at Beijing Normal University | |
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Education | Psychology |
Chinese Language and Literature | Mathematics |
Geography | Cell Biology |
Marxist Philosophy | Physical Chemistry |
Ancient Chinese History | System Sciences |
Theory of History | Theoretical Physics |
Folklore/Anthropology | Environmental Science |
Ecology | Educational Economics and Management |
Beijing Normal University possesses 74 research laboratories, including 4 National Key Labs, 7 Key Labs of the Ministry of Education and 5 Key Labs of the Beijing Municipality. Key research centers and facilities include 7 key research facilities in humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of Education, 2 research centers of Engineering and Technology of the Beijing Municipality, 3 research centers jointly established with the Beijing Municipality, and more than 40 other research centers. Additionally, the university has an institute dedicated to Proteomics, the only one established in a university by the Ministry of Education. The university has also established a Science Park comprising 6 hectares.
National Key Laboratories at Beijing Normal University |
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National Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning[10] |
National Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology[11] |
National Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science[12] |
National Key Laboratory of Water Environmental simulation[13] |
Beijing Normal University's annual research budget in the sciences exceeds RMB 100 million. In 2010, 150 projects were funded by the National Natural Science Foundation, with a record high amount of RMB 62 million (compared with 44.7 million in 2009 and 37 million in 2007).[14]
Funding for research in the humanities and social sciences has increased rapidly in the last five years to RMB 150 million, the third largest budget nationally. Since 2002, the annual increase in budget has been over RMB 30 million, equating to RMB 40,000 per capita. This increase in funding reflects BNU's institutional commitment to basic theory and research in the humanities and social sciences.
International Collaboration
Beijing Normal University is part of a university consortium, including the
Beijing Normal University was among the first Chinese institutions to accept international students. It is particularly popular for its Mandarin Chinese study programs. Among its most prestigious programs is Princeton in Beijing, a collaboration with Princeton University in the United States.[16]
The university collaborates with the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS) on SUSS's Master of Arts in Chinese Language and Literature.[17]
Beijing Normal University is the seat of the BRICS Universities League Secretariat with BNU as a leading university in terms of BRICS higher education and academic cooperation.[18]
Rankings and reputation
BCUR National[19] | Domestic | 19 | |
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Wu Shulian National[20] | Domestic | 28 | |
CUAA National[21] | Alumni | =14 | |
QS National[22] | General | 11 | |
THE National[23] | General | 12 | |
(Asia version)[24] | General | 52 | |
THE Asia (Asia version)[25] | General | 42 | |
ARWU World[26] | Research | 151–200 | |
QS World[27] | General | =272 | |
THE World[28] | General | 177 | |
USNWR World[29] | General | =269 |
As of 2023, BNU was ranked 18th by the
BNU is ranked 36th among the Global Top 100 Innovative Universities according to the World's Universities with Real Impacts (WURI) Ranking 2021.[32]
According to the 2021 QS World University Rankings, BNU was ranked among the top 170 in "Arts and Humanities", "Social Sciences & Management" and "Natural Science" related subjects.[33][34][35]
Beijing Normal University consistently features in the top 300th global universities as ranked by the
- QS World University Ranking : 262nd, 12th in China[38]
- Academic Ranking of World Universities : 151-200th[42]
- Times Higher Education World University Rankings : 177th, 12th in China[39]
Schools and Departments
- Faculty of Education[43]
- School of Chinese Language and Literature[44]
- School of Law
- School of Economy and Business Administration
- School of Foreign Language and Culture[45]
- School of Life Science
- School of Chemistry
- School of Resources[46]
- School of Geography
- Department of Astronomy[47]
- School of Mathematics
- School of History
- School of Philosophy
- Department of Physics
- School of Systems Science[48]
- School of Psychology[49]
- School of Social Development and Public Policy[50]
- School of Arts and Mass Media
- School of Environment
- School of Sociology
Beijing Normal University also has many other areas of study not mentioned above.
Campus
The main campus is in the
The original campus was near
Beijing Normal University's current campus was built in 1954. It is located in central northwest Beijing in Haidian district between the second and third ring roads. It is the closest of all Haidian universities to Tiananmen Square.
Its campus hosted the
Notable alumni
- Nobel Literature Prizelaureate
- Liu Xiaobo, writer and dissident, 2010 Nobel Peace Prize laureate
- Su Tong, novelist
- Cao Shui, poet, novelist and screenwriter
- Xie Jun, chess grandmaster
- Zhu Jin, astronomer
- Lang Ping, gold medalist in 1984 Summer Olympics women's volleyball, and former head coach of the U.S. women's national volleyball team
- Chen Yibing, gymnast, 2008 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Olympics gold medalist
- Xu Jialu, professor of Chinese, politician, and former vice chairman of the National People's Congress
- Minister of Educationof the People's Republic of China
- Yu Dan, professor well known for her popular and controversial lectures about the Analects broadcast on China Central Television
- Wang Dezhao or Ouang Te Tchao, prominent Chinese physicist, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, student of French physicist Paul Langevin and founder of underwater acoustics in China, Officier of the French National Order of the Legion of Honour.
- United States National Academy of Sciences, former biochemist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, and currently Director and Investigator at the National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing (NIBS, Beijing)
- Liang Jun, teacher and women's rights activist
- Timothy Geithner, 75th United States Secretary of the Treasury. He attended as a language student studying Mandarin in 1982 as an undergraduate at Dartmouth College.[55]
- Kirsten Gillibrand, United States Senator from New York. She attended as an undergraduate in Dartmouth College's FSP program.[56]
- Connie Britton, actress. She also attended as an language student in Dartmouth College's FSP program and was the roommate of Kirsten Gillibrand.[57][58]
Affiliated high schools
- Experimental High School Attached to Beijing Normal University
- The High School Affiliated to Beijing Normal University
- The Second High School Attached to Beijing Normal University
See also
- List of universities in China
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