Shanxi Normal University Scholarship for International Students

About the university

Shanxi Normal University (SXNU), located at No. 339 Taiyu Road, Xiaodian District, Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, is a full-time public undergraduate university under the administration of Shanxi Province. It has developed into a provincial key university with a comprehensive range of disciplines, a complete training system for bachelor's, master's, and doctoral programs, and distinctive features in education. It serves as an important base for training basic education teachers in Shanxi Province, a "Double First-Class" discipline construction university in Shanxi, a key institution for the quality and efficiency improvement of the "1331 Project" in Shanxi's higher education, a high-level university construction institution under the "Hundred Billion Project" of Shanxi's higher education, a participant in the Ministry of Education's Collaborative Quality Improvement Plan for Teacher Education, an implementing institution for the Basic Capacity Building Project of Universities in Central and Western China, the first pilot university in Shanxi for publicly-funded teacher training, and a university for training teachers under the "Excellent Teacher Plan" in Shanxi. Founded in 1958, Shanxi Normal University originated from Jinnan Teachers College, upgraded to Shanxi Teachers College in 1964, renamed Shanxi Normal University in 1984, became a master's degree-granting institution in 1990, merged with Shanxi Vocational Teachers College and the School of Physical Education of Shanxi Normal University (independent establishment) in 1999, was designated as a doctoral degree-granting institution in 2006, and relocated from Linfen to Taiyuan in 2021. As of September 2024, the university has 21 colleges, 59 undergraduate programs, 7 first-level doctoral degree authorization disciplines, 3 postdoctoral research stations, 21 first-level master's degree authorization disciplines, 7 provincial key disciplines, 14 provincial key construction disciplines, and 19 professional master's degree authorization categories. It has 1,935 faculty and staff, including 1,397 full-time teachers, 21,205 undergraduate students, and 4,128 graduate students. In 1964, Jinnan Teachers College was upgraded and renamed Shanxi Teachers College. On April 5, 1972, following higher-level regulations, the college admitted its first batch of 361 worker-peasant-soldier students through a combination of "mass recommendation, leadership approval, and school review." It established eight departments: Chinese, Political History, Mathematics, Physics, Physical Education, Biochemistry, Geography, and Foreign Languages, with a two-year academic system. At the start of the semester, the main campus had 280 faculty and staff, including 145 full-time teachers (16 lecturers) and 27 part-time teachers. In 1979, Shanxi Normal University began enrolling graduate students. On April 1, 1980, Document Jin Fa Gan Zi No. 121 appointed Li Shouqing as Vice President of Shanxi Teachers College. In 1981, the university's library building broke ground, with an investment of 2.52 million yuan and a construction area of 7,754 square meters. In 1984, Shanxi Teachers College was renamed Shanxi Normal University. In the same year, following higher-level instructions, the university implemented a department head responsibility system. The provincial government allocated 1 million yuan for the construction of the modern physics laboratory in the Physics Department. The Chinese Language Teaching and Communication Society was renamed the Chinese Language Newspaper Office and upgraded to a department-level unit. The Chinese Language Newspaper Office and China Central Television jointly organized a Chinese language knowledge competition across 16 cities. A Swedish middle school teacher, Ms. Mary, gave a lecture on "Swedish Scenery and Conversational Art" in the Foreign Languages Department. Professor Xu Gangyi from Austin Peay State University in the United States gave an academic lecture on "American Education" in the Foreign Languages Department. The Biology Department founded the "Biology Newspaper." In 1989, the Physical Education Department of Shanxi Normal University was restructured into the independently established School of Physical Education of Shanxi Normal University. On April 1, the "Work Regulations for Counselors" were issued. In 1990, Shanxi Normal University was approved to grant master's degrees. In 1999, the School of Physical Education of Shanxi Normal University and Shanxi Vocational Teachers College merged into Shanxi Normal University. In 2002, Shanxi Normal University established its independent college, the Modern College of Arts and Sciences of Shanxi Normal University. In 2006, Shanxi Normal University was approved to grant doctoral degrees. On August 26, 2008, Shanxi Normal University was approved as a regular institution of higher education eligible to recommend outstanding undergraduate graduates for master's degree programs without examination. In October 2021, Shanxi Normal University relocated from Linfen to Taiyuan.