Listen to this articleBeijing Normal University（北京师范大学：Běijīnɡ Shīfàn Dàxué）was the earliest established teacher-training university in China, which grew out of the Faculty of Education of the Metropolitan University founded in 1902. It was named Beijing Normal University in 1923. It is the first university in China that has been authorized to grant doctoral degree in educational technology
For the last one hundred years, the faculty and students of the Beijing Normal University, motivated by a strong sense of responsibility for the nation and the people, have strived to live up to the motto of “studying to teach and acting to example” and cultivated a fine tradition of patriotism, progress, honesty, innovation, truth-seeking and being a paragon of virtue and learning. After a century of development, Beijing Normal University has become an important education and research base for multi-disciplinary and advanced scientific studies. It cultivated nearly 200,000 talents for China, among them many excellent teachers.
Beijing Normal University lays great emphasis upon discipline construction, sets up a curriculum system for characteristics of teacher training, educational science, pure science and humanities. Currently, the University has 27 schools and departments and 12 institutes. The University is a pioneer with respect to the number of national key laboratories, bases for science researching and talents cultivation, disciplines that offer PhDs, and the average personal academic achievements throughout the country.
