Hangzhou Normal University
Province : Jiangsu–Nanjing University Ranking : 1017
Hangzhou Normal University was formed in November 2010 by the merger of the former College of Continuing Education and the College of Adult Education. The college consists of three departments, including the college office, academic self-examination department, and training department. There are currently 22 faculty members. After the latest round of institutional reforms, the School of Continuing Education has changed from a management department to a teaching unit. Its main responsibilities are: to hold continuing education for academic qualifications, self-study full-time student assistance, and to conduct various non-degree continuing education training. With the vision of “transformation and development to create first-class”, the college actively expands its school resources, further promotes excellent academic education, special teacher training, and strong social training, and promotes the standardization, professionalization and specialization of various tasks.
The predecessor of our school can be traced back to the Zhejiang Normal Government Teachers College, which was founded in 1908. In 1913, it was renamed Zhejiang Provincial First Normal School. In 1978, Hangzhou Normal College was established with the approval of the State Council. Since 2000, Hangzhou Education College and Hangzhou Medical College have been merged to form the new Hangzhou Teachers College. In 2007, the school was renamed Hangzhou Normal University.
The school has now developed into four major disciplines: humanities, social sciences, science, and medicine. Teacher education and art education are distinctive, humanities and social sciences have certain advantages, some science disciplines are well-known, and various emerging disciplines are coordinated and comprehensive. Normal University. In 2001, the school passed the undergraduate education qualification assessment of the Ministry of Education.
The school currently has three campuses: Cangqian, Xiasha, and You Huangshan. It covers an area of 1.889 million square meters and has a fixed asset value of 2.602 billion yuan. The school consists of 18 colleges, 2 public teaching units, and a directly affiliated hospital. It currently has 21,219 full-time students (excluding independent colleges), nearly 2241 faculty and staff, and 1510 full-time teachers. Has a shared academician, national overseas high-level talent introduction “Thousand Talents Plan” candidate, Ministry of Education Yangtze River scholar, National Outstanding Young Scientist Fund recipient, national candidate for the New Century Multi-Million Talent Project, Ministry of Education “New Century Excellent Talent Support Program” There are 39 high-level talents such as candidates.
The school has 72 undergraduate majors, covering 10 university disciplines, of which 5 are national specialty specialties, 1 is a comprehensive reform pilot major of the Ministry of Education, and the provincial “12th Five-Year” and “13th Five-Year” advantages and specialty majors are 34. Has 9 national-level quality courses, quality resource sharing courses and video public courses, quality online open courses, 13 national planning teaching materials; 1 Ministry of Education outstanding teacher training plan reform project, 25 industry-academia collaborative education programs; There are two national experimental teaching demonstration centers, one national university student off-campus practical education base, and two demonstration virtual simulation experimental teaching projects of the Ministry of Education. The school has one doctoral talent training program serving the country’s special needs, two joint doctoral programs, 24 first-class master’s programs, and 16 master’s degree authorized categories. . There are 1 Zhejiang Province’s superior and characteristic disciplines, 8 first-class disciplines in Zhejiang Province, and 6 first-class disciplines in Zhejiang Province. There are currently 1 national-level technology business incubator, 17 provincial and ministerial laboratories, engineering research centers, research bases, and technological innovation service platforms, 9 provincial and ministerial innovation teams, and 1 provincial new university think tank. In 2018, the school’s latest ESI domestic ranking ranked 94th. The number of projects approved by the National Natural Science Foundation and the National Social Science Fund ranked among the top universities in the province. The number of high-level papers has increased year by year. Top 100 universities, chemistry, clinical medicine, botany, and zoology are among the top 1% of ESI subjects. .
The school has established inter-school friendly cooperation and exchange relations with more than 30 institutions in the United States, Britain, South Korea, Japan, Australia, the Philippines, and Taiwan, and has qualifications for enrolling and training international students in China. In addition, the school also undertakes part of the assignment of Hanban Chinese language teachers, and undertakes the training of overseas Chinese language teachers’ teaching ability.
Adhering to the century-old tradition of running a school, the entire school is united and working together to work towards the goal of building a first-class comprehensive university in the province and even in China.
Program | Degree | Duration | Tuition Fees(CNY) | Teaching Medium |
Chinese Language Program | Non- Degree | 1 years | 13200 RMB per year | Chinese |
International Summer Camp | Non- Degree | 4 weeks | 2000 RMB per week | Chinese |
Program | Degree | Duration | Tuition Fees(CNY) | Teaching Medium |
International Summer Camp | Bachelor | 4 years | 18000 RMB per year | English |
Financial Engineering | Bachelor | 4 years | 18000 RMB per year | English |
Nursing | Bachelor | 4 years | 18000 RMB per year | English |
Economics(Orientation of International Economics and Trade) | Bachelor | 4 years | 18000 RMB per year | English |
Financial Engineering | Bachelor | 4 years | 18000 RMB per year | English |
Nursing | Bachelor | 4 years | 18000 RMB per year | English |
Electronic and Information Engineering | Bachelor | 4 years | 18000 RMB per year | Chinese |
International Economics and Trade | Bachelor | 4 years | 18000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Chemical Engineering and Technology | Bachelor | 4 years | 18000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Environment and Energy | Bachelor | 4 years | 18000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Software Engineering | Bachelor | 4 years | 18000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Communication Engineering | Bachelor | 4 years | 18000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Pharmaceutical Science | Bachelor | 4 years | 18000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Law | Bachelor | 4 years | 18000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Animation | Bachelor | 4 years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
E-Business | Bachelor | 4 years | 18000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Geographical Information Science | Bachelor | 4 years | 18000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Composition and Compositional Theory | Bachelor | 4 years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Pharmaceutical Engineering | Bachelor | 4 years | 18000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Intellectual Property | Bachelor | 4 years | 18000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Preventive Medicine | Bachelor | 4 years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Applied Psychology | Bachelor | 4 years | 15000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Applied Physics | Bachelor | 4 years | 18000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Applied Chemistry | Bachelor | 4 years | 18000 RMB per year | Chinese |
English Language and Literature | Bachelor | 4 years | 18000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Musicology | Bachelor | 4 years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Music Performance | Bachelor | 4 years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Art Studies | Bachelor | 4 years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Pharmacy | Bachelor | 4 years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Early Childhood Education | Bachelor | 4 years | 15000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Leisure Sports | Bachelor | 4 years | 18000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Primary Education | Bachelor | 4 years | 15000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Logistics Management | Bachelor | 4 years | 18000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Physics | Bachelor | 4 years | 18000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Dancing | Bachelor | 4 years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Martial Arts and National Traditional Sports | Bachelor | 4 years | 18000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Statistics | Bachelor | 4 years | 18000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Physical Education | Bachelor | 4 years | 18000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Special Education | Bachelor | 4 years | 15000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Ideological and Political Education | Bachelor | 4 years | 15000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Mathematics and Applied Mathematics | Bachelor | 4 years | 18000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Visual Communication Design | Bachelor | 4 years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Marketing | Bachelor | 4 years | 18000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Food Quality and Safety | Bachelor | 4 years | 18000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Biological Science | Bachelor | 4 years | 18000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Social Work | Bachelor | 4 years | 15000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Software Engineering | Bachelor | 4 years | 18000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Japanese Language and Literature | Bachelor | 4 years | 15000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Humanistic Education | Bachelor | 4 years | 15000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Fine Arts | Bachelor | 4 years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
History | Bachelor | 4 years | 15000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Stomatology | Bachelor | 4 years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Scientific Education | Bachelor | 4 years | 18000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Economics(Orientation of International Economics and Trade) | Bachelor | 4 years | 18000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Educational Technology | Bachelor | 4 years | 15000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Computer Science and Technology | Bachelor | 4 years | 18000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Painting | Bachelor | 4 years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Exhibition Economy and Management | Bachelor | 4 years | 18000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Environment Design | Bachelor | 4 years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Environmental Engineering | Bachelor | 4 years | 18000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Chemistry | Bachelor | 4 years | 18000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Chinese Language and Literature | Bachelor | 4 years | 15000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language | Bachelor | 4 years | 15000 RMB per year | Chinese |
International Business | Bachelor | 4 years | 18000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Public Arts | Bachelor | 4 years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Public Affairs Management | Bachelor | 4 years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Polymer Materials and Engineering | Bachelor | 4 years | 18000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Program | Degree | Duration | Tuition Fees(CNY) | Teaching Medium |
Computer Application Technology | Master | 3 Years | 22000 RMB per year | English |
Urban Studies | Master | 3 Years | 22000 RMB per year | English |
Psychology | Master | 3 Years | 22000 RMB per year | English |
Comparative Literature and Cross-Cultural Studies | Master | 3 Years | 22000 RMB per year | English |
Developmental Biology | Master | 3 Years | 22000 RMB per year | English |
Business Administration (Specializing in International Trade | Master | 3 Years | 22000 RMB per year | English |
Chemical Engineering and Technology | Master | 3 Years | 22000 RMB per year | English |
Mechanical Manufacture and Automation | Master | 3 Years | 22000 RMB per year | English |
Higher Education | Master | 3 Years | 22000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics | Master | 3 Years | 22000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Analytical Chemistry | Master | 3 Years | 22000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Legal Psychology | Master | 3 Years | 22000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Law Culture | Master | 3 Years | 22000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Educational Psychology | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Developmental Biology | Master | 3 Years | 22000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Zoology | Master | 3 Years | 22000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Film Studies | Master | 3 Years | 25000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Social Development of Contemporary China | Master | 3 Years | 22000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Urban Studies | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Comparative Literature and World Literature | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Chinese Philosophy | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Chinese Modern and Contemporary literature | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Basic Issues of China’s Modern & Contemporary History | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Ancient Chinese Literature | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Ancient Chinese Literature | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Botany | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Sports Training | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Human Movement Science | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Linguistics and Applied Linguistics | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Language Cognition & Instructional Psychology | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Organic Chemistry | Master | 3 Years | 22000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Organosilicon Chemistry and Materials | Master | 3 Years | 22000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Applied Psychology | Master | 3 Years | 22000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Applied Mathematics | Master | 3 Years | 22000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Applied Cryptography | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Applied Chemistry | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
English Language and Literature | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Studies of Music & Dance | Master | 3 Years | 25000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Music | Master | 3 Years | 25000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Art Theory | Master | 3 Years | 25000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Art and Design | Master | 3 Years | 25000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Genetics | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
School Curriculum and Teaching | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Student Development and Education | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Early Childhood Education | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Leisure Sports | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Criminal Law | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Psychological Health Education | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Primary Education | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Modern Educational Technology | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Opera | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Drama, Movie & TV Studies | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Drama | Master | 3 Years | 22000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Physical Chemistry | Master | 3 Years | 22000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Dancing | Master | 3 Years | 22000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Inorganic Chemistry | Master | 3 Years | 22000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Literature and Arts | Master | 3 Years | 22000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Linguistics and Applied Linguistics in Foreign Language | Master | 3 Years | 22000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Land Resources Management | Master | 3 Years | 22000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Humanistic Social Science of Sports | Master | 3 Years | 22000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Physical Education and Training | Master | 3 Years | 22000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Sports Teaching | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Special Education | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Procedural Law | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Ideological and Political Education | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Aging Biology | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Ecology | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Neurobiology | Master | 3 Years | 25000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Social Medicine and Health Care Management | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Social Sports | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Social Security | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Studies of Fine Arts | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Japanese Language and Literature | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Human Anatomy & Histo-embryology | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Condensed Matter Physics | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
National Traditional Sports | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Civil and Commercial Law | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Fine Arts | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Design Studies | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Study on Chinese Marxism | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Basic Theory of Marxism | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Clinical Cognitive Neuroscience | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Theoretical Physics | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Curriculum and Instruction Theories | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Education of Science & Technology | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Contests Organization | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Economic Law | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Principles of Education | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
History of Education | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Educational Leadership and Management | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Educational Economics and Management | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Education Technology | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Education Management | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Teacher Education Studies | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Health Management | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Computational Mathematics | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Applied Computer Technology | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Basic Psychology | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Basic Mathematics | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Nursing | Master | 3 Years | 22000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Administration Management | Master | 3 Years | 25000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Chinese Philology | Master | 3 Years | 22000 RMB per year | Chinese |
China Studies | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Marxism Studies Abroad | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Radio & TV | Master | 3 Years | 25000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Management of Public Culture | Master | 3 Years | 20000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Polymer Chemistry and Physics | Master | 3 Years | 22000 RMB per year | Chinese |
Expenses in Hangzhou Normal University
After you are admitted, we will inform you via email for your confirmation of acceptance. Afterward, we will issue the admission letter, JW201/202 Form for visa application. If you wish to live on campus, please complete the Housing Application form.
Prepare Your Departure:
Before your departure, be sure to take the following materials:
(1) The Admission Letter
(2) Passport (valid for at least 6 months).
(3) JW201/202 Form
(4) Official Foreigner Physical Examination Form and your blood test report.
Be aware that the orientation is mandatory for freshman students.
Applying for any course at Hangzhou Normal University is very easy. Following some easy steps, you can easily apply for your desired course. You can complete your application online by following some simple steps.
Here is the detailed information about the required admission documents. International applicants are highly recommended to provide the following documents.
First of all, you must have a passport. As we know passport is a very essential document and without this, we can not leave our country. So if you don’t have it yet, we advise you to make it from your home country as soon as possible. Moreover, if you already have your passport, then make sure that it is not expired. If your passport already expired then you need to renew it. Please note, your passport must have to be ready before your visa processing. See a sample of passport.
The general size of the passport size photo is (50mm x 40mm). For applying in china universities, your passport size photo has to be clear and the background must be plain, white or off-white in colour. The height of the head is between 28mm – 33mm and head width 21mm–24mm. Advice to submit a colour photo which is taken 6 months before. Use a clear picture of your face. Do not use any filters and take off your eyeglasses for passport size photos, selfies or pictures with someone do not use as a passport size photo. Here is a sample of a Passport Size Photo.
Submit your immediate academic transcripts & certificate for applying. For example, if you are applying for bachelor submit your school transcripts and certificates. For Master’s Degree provide your undergraduate transcripts and certificates. When you are applying for Ph.D, you have to provide your both (undergraduate and graduate) transcripts and certificates. Transcript And Certificate are important, it help universities to decide if you have the necessary background and skills for the major. All Transcripts and Certificates must have to be notarized. You can notarize your document from an advocate who is authorized by the government.
Note: All the applicant’s transcripts and certificates must be notarized and language should be in Chinese or English version.
You must prepare a CV or resume for applying in abroad country. CV acts as your business profile, though universities are not interested in detailed descriptions of your jobs or experience, but you have to add this. You should focus on your published academic papers, describe academic group works or extracurricular activities, relevant think-thanks, etc. Add your academic qualifications with results, personal details, personal achievement these are must for a perfect CV. Here is a sample of the CV/resume.
Aspiring overseas students are required to take a medical examination to ensure that you are in a good physical condition. The medical examination must include all the items which are listed in the Foreigner Physical Examination Form. The medical examination result will be declared as invalid without the signature of the attending doctor and hospital stamp or seal. You must bring the original medical documents when you come to arrive in China. The Medical certificate will be carried out on behalf of The Ministry of Public Health and the Ministry of Public Security. Here get a sample of physical examination.
The police clearance certificate is known as “No Criminal Record Certificate” and also known as a good citizen certificate. Police clearance is very important for going to abroad because a foreign country does not allow any criminal records. Police Clearance Certificate is an official document approved by the police or government agencies to prove that you have no criminal offense like arrest, conviction. Additionally, a police clearance certificate is valid for the next 6 months, After 6 months of issue, it will be declared as invalid. See the sample of the Police Clearance Certificate.
A bank statement is mandatory when we go foreign for different purposes like a visitor, a business or immigrants. These rules are not changeable for study. So, students also have to show a bank statement. China has no strict rules that only your parents have to be your sponsor. Anyone can be your sponsor. See the sample of a bank statement.
For studying in China you must have to submit your English proficient certificate to prove your English skills. It is not mandatory that you must have IELTS, you can take English Proficiency Certificate from your school or university. Additionally, If you have done IELTS or TOFEL you can submit it. See the sample of English proficient certificate.
If you want to study in Chinese taught and want to get CSC scholarship then you must have to submit HSK certificate of proficiency in Chinese. HSK is not mandatory for English taught, but if you have it will be beneficial for you. HSK supervised by the HSK Center of Beijing Language and Culture University to judge the Chinese language skill of non-native speakers. See the sample of HSK certificate of proficiency in Chinese.
Students of masters & Ph.D. have to submit two recommendation letters. A recommendation letter is usually written by a supervisor, colleague, and teacher. Two recommendation letters have to be written by two-person. Make sure that the writer knows you very well and you have completed any course with them or work with them. In the letter mention about your academic and personal traits and emphasize the strengths that are relevant to the major or university where you are applying. Have to maintain a positive and enthusiastic tone about you and include professor’s phone numbers and email addresses. Here is the sample of the Recommendation Letter.
If you want to apply for MS/Ph.D you must need a study plan or research proposal in Chinese or English (no less than 800 words). A study plan describes in detail what you are going to do with the scholarship. Explain your main educational goal, and how you want to achieve this. And keep in mind that it is very important, that helps in an excellent organization as well as creating a sense of liability in your learning process. This document is needed only for Ms or Ph.D applicants, so please make sure that your study plan or research proposal states that information as specific as possible. See the sample of Study Plan.
Study gap certificate is an affidavit that is used to show a gap in education or further study. Gap certificate provides your statement on the non-judicial stamp paper stating the reason for taking the gap and claim that you did not take admission to any other college, university or courses during the gap year. You can get this stamp paper from any notary, sub-registry office or court and contact with an advocate they will prepare your gap certificate.
Fills this form in Chinese or English language. It is essential to fill all the information that should be very authentic. Click here to get the Application Form sample.
Please send us all these documents through our E-Mail: admission@digiedupro.com.
Dear applicants, If you have more queries please don’t hesitate to knock our consultants. Here is our Consultant’s contact number : +8613632437050/ +8618852867225.
Hangzhou Normal University as setting up a series of scholarship schemes to sponsor international students and scholars to undertake studies and research.
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Hangzhou Normal University is a local comprehensive university focusing on teacher education, art education, and liberal arts. The emerging applied disciplines are developing rapidly and multidisciplinary development is coordinated. The school’s predecessor dates back to Zhejiang government-level two-level normal school founded in 1908, and it is one of the earliest six higher normal schools established in the country. Hangzhou Normal University was established in 1978 with the approval of the State Council. Around 2000, five colleges including Hangzhou Education College and Hangzhou Medical College were merged. In 2007, the school was renamed Hangzhou Normal University.
The school upholds the spirit of “diligent, sincere, liberal and refined” school spirit, promotes the “humanities hall, art campus” school characteristics, in line with the era of innovative entrepreneurship education, and continues to deepen Education and teaching reform. Implementation Unit of the Ministry of Education’s outstanding teacher training plan reform project implementation unit, national university students’ innovation and entrepreneurship training plan, local implementation universities, national typical experience colleges of innovation and entrepreneurship, the first batch of demonstration colleges for deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education reform, the key universities in Zhejiang Provincial Shuangshuang Demonstration Base.
The school has established intercollegiate cooperation and exchange relationships with more than 30 universities in the United States, Britain, South Korea, Japan, Australia, and other countries and Taiwan. It has a Master of Education Leadership and Management program approved by the Ministry of Education and the University of Canberra, Australia. Co-organized a Confucius Institute with Tennessee State University. With the qualifications for enrolling and cultivating foreign students in China, it is the first batch of pilot universities in China to study in China for quality certification.
The school always regards the quality of teaching as the foundation of the school, adheres to the fundamental task of building people with moral character, inherits the education thought of “personality first, five educations simultaneously”. It continuously strengthens the traditional characteristics of teacher education; actively adapt to the needs of regional economic and social development, build five emerging application-oriented professional groups, and deepen the application Reform of the training model of talents and vigorously promote innovation and entrepreneurship education. In recent years, the quality of university undergraduate teaching has consistently ranked at the forefront of universities in Zhejiang Province. It ranked third among provincial universities in the teaching and performance evaluation of ordinary universities in Zhejiang province in the 2014-2015 school year, and ranked the middle of the Zhejiang Province ’s general undergraduate classification evaluation in 2017 Ranked first in teaching and research universities. Education and teaching reform has achieved remarkable results. In 2014, it won 4 national teaching achievement awards.
The school has not only sent a large number of outstanding teachers with advanced educational ideas, high theoretical literacy and practical abilities to Zhejiang Province and even the whole country, but also a group of outstanding alumni represented by Chairman of the Board of Directors of Alibaba Group, such as Ma Yun. During the “Thirteenth Five-Year Plan” period, all schools were united to further deepen the reform of education and teaching, and make unremitting efforts to accelerate the construction of a first-class comprehensive university with distinctive characteristics.