Chinese Government Scholarship Silk Road Program

About the university

Capital Normal University (CNU), located in Beijing, is a national "Double First-Class" construction university, a provincial-ministerial co-built university, and a key municipal university under the administration of Beijing Municipality. It is a member of the Beijing-Hong Kong University Alliance and has been selected for the Ministry of Education's "101 Plan", the "Double Name Plan" Teacher Training Base, the National High-Level University Public-Sponsored Graduate Program, the National Characteristic Key Discipline Project, the Ministry of Education's Demonstration Base for Studying in China, the Ministry of Education's Excellent Teacher Training Program, and the National College Student Innovation Experimental Program. Founded in 1954 as Beijing Normal College, it absorbed faculties from North China People's University, Workers' and Peasants' Normal College, Art Normal College, and Beijing Normal Junior College after 1960. In 1980, it was designated as a key municipal university by the Beijing Municipal Government. It was among the first batch of institutions authorized to confer master's degrees in 1981 and began training doctoral students in 1985, becoming one of the second batch of doctoral degree authorization units in China. In 1992, the Beijing Normal College Branch merged into Beijing Normal College, which was renamed Capital Normal University the same year. Subsequently, the Foreign Language Normal College of Beijing Union University, Beijing No. 3 Normal School, Tongzhou Normal School, and Beijing Preschool Normal School were successively merged. In 2014, the Beijing Municipal Government and the Ministry of Education jointly issued a document to co-build Capital Normal University. As of October 2025, the university covers an area of approximately 1,036,500 square meters, with a total building area of about 973,200 square meters. The total assets of teaching and research instruments and equipment exceed 1.906 billion yuan. It has 30 faculties and departments, 60 undergraduate programs, 26 first-level master's degree authorization disciplines, 20 professional master's degree categories, 19 first-level doctoral degree authorization disciplines, and 4 professional doctoral degree categories. The university has 2,419 faculty and staff members and a total of 26,028 students, with eight campuses including the main campus and Beiyi campus.