Nanyang Normal University is an ordinary undergraduate university in Henan Province. It was founded in 1951 in Henan Province. It was upgraded to Nanyang Normal College in 1958 and was upgraded to Nanyang Normal College in 2000. In 2007, it passed the assessment of the undergraduate teaching work level of the Ministry of Education, and was approved as a "Talent Training Project for Serving the National Special Needs - Bachelor's Degree Awarding Institution to Carry out Pilot Program for Cultivating Master's Professional Degree Postgraduate Students" in 2016. In 2017, it was approved as a master's degree awarding institution. In 2020, it was identified as a key discipline in Henan Province as a characteristic backbone discipline in Henan Province.
school covers an area of 2,190 mu, with a construction area of 852,000 m2, a total value of teaching and research instruments and equipment is 440 million yuan, 2.38 million Chinese and foreign paper books, and 1.6 million e-books. There are more than 27,500 full-time students. There are more than 1,600 faculty and staff, including more than 500 people with senior professional and technical titles, nearly 400 doctoral students, and more than 1,230 full-time teachers. More than 40 people have the first-level candidates for national-level talents, special allowances for by the State Council, national outstanding teachers, national model teachers, top young talents in Central Plains, provincial-level special professors, provincial academic and technical leaders, etc., have initially formed a high-level faculty team with high-level experts as the core and professors and doctors as the backbone.
School took the lead in carrying out professional skills job matching training for college students across the country, and is the first national-level pilot unit for the construction of a national vocational guidance studio among undergraduate colleges in the country. There are platforms such as national off-campus practical education bases for college students, national co-creation spaces, national university practical education innovation and entrepreneurship demonstration bases, national characteristic majors, provincial first-class majors, provincial characteristic majors, provincial professional comprehensive reform pilot majors, provincial teaching teams, provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers, provincial high-quality courses and high-quality resource sharing courses. Take the lead in establishing a linkage development community for teacher education in , Henan, and form a UDS teacher training model composed of "Nanyang Normal University-Local Government-Primary and Secondary Schools". In recent years, students have won many excellent results in competitions at all levels and types of subjects, and have won the National Youth Popular Science Innovation Experiment and Works Competition Championship, the National Engineering Robot Competition Special Prize, the Creation Youth College Student Entrepreneurship Competition National Silver Award, the China Folk Art Peony Award and more than 600 awards at the provincial and ministerial level and above. The winning results of the China Internet + Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition rank third in Henan Province for three consecutive years.
school has 1 characteristic backbone discipline group in Henan Province, 3 first-level key disciplines in Henan Province, and 8 second-level key disciplines in Henan Province, and the discipline of chemistry has entered the top 1% of the world rankings in ESI. There are 28 provincial and ministerial platforms including provincial collaborative innovation center , academician workstations, provincial key laboratories, provincial engineering laboratories, provincial engineering technology research centers, provincial cultural industry development research bases, provincial key research bases for humanities and social sciences in provincial universities, national civil affairs policy theory research bases of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, Central Plains Quyi Research Base of the Ministry of Culture, and Eastern Han Dynasty History Research Base of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. In the past five years, it has undertaken more than 160 national scientific research projects and more than 330 provincial and ministerial scientific research projects; it has successively won more than 350 projects, including the Henan Province Teaching Achievement Award, the Henan Province Outstanding Social Science Achievement First Prize, and the Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award; it has obtained more than 500 national authorized patents; it has published 2,600 academic papers in SCI, SSCI, AHCI, EI source journals, CSSCI , and Chinese core journals, and published nearly 230 academic works and textbooks. It has successively hosted or hosted high-end academic conferences and forums such as the first International Forum on Ecological Security of Water Sources, International Academic Symposium on Chinese Studies (Sinology) Education, "Organic Waste Resource Utilization" EU -China Cooperation Seminar, International Forum on Research on Eastern Han Dynasty History, Huaxia Jade Culture Lecture Hall, China's Ninth Annual Meeting on Disaster History, Central and Western Inorganic Chemistry Annual Meeting, Feng Youlan Academic Thought Seminar and other high-end academic conferences and forums. "Nandu Academy" and " Journal of Nanyang Normal University " have both been rated as first-class journals in Henan Province, the top 100 social science newspapers in the country, and the core journal of China Humanities and Social Sciences Journal .In the global natural index ranking, it ranked 100 to 150th in universities across the country for four consecutive years, ranking in the top 5 among universities in Henan Province, three of which ranked 4th.
school has established long-term cooperative relations with high-level universities in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland , Italy, Finland , Sweden , Malaysia , South Korea, Thailand and other countries. It has successively established Nanyang Normal University Wolong School with Royal University of Bangkok, Thailand , Wolong School, Nanyang Normal University, Bangkok, Thailand , Wolong School, Nanyang Normal University, Wolong School, and successively established Nanyang Normal University, Watun College, and Wolong School, respectively. The college (overseas college), jointly organized undergraduate education projects with Jeonju University in South Korea and Royal Polytechnic University in Bangkok, Thailand, carried out Sino-foreign undergraduate course cooperation projects with the University of South Australia, reached an credit mutual recognition agreement with Curtin University in Australia, established a school-level exchange program of the 121 double-degree program of the "China-US Talent Training Program" with several state universities in the United States, and signed a joint graduate training agreement with Savonia University of Applied Science and Technology in Finland and Meladaren University in Sweden. Sino-foreign cooperative education scale continues to expand, and the scale of international students ranks among the top in Henan Province normal colleges and universities. He has been approved as a qualification unit for studying abroad for young backbone teachers of colleges and universities in the National Scholarship Fund Committee and a qualification unit for selecting for international exchange projects for outstanding undergraduates. He has been successfully approved as an international promotion base for Han Culture in Henan Province and was elected as a member unit of China Education International Exchange Association.
school has successively won honorary titles such as " National Civilized Unit ", "National College Practical Education Innovation and Entrepreneurship Demonstration Base", "National College Student Social Practice Activities Advanced Unit", "Henan Province Demonstration Applied Technology Type Undergraduate College", "Henan Province's First Batch of College Mental Health Education Demonstration Units", "Henan Higher Education Quality and Social Satisfaction Undergraduate Colleges", "Henan Province's Advanced Unit for Party Building Work in Colleges and Universities". "Ecological and Environmental Protection Volunteer Service Project for the Middle Line of the South-to-North Water Diversion" and "Science and Technology Supporting Agricultural Volunteer Service Project" have been successively rated as the best volunteer service projects in the country. The school was invited to make typical speeches at the National Volunteer Service Symposium on Learning from Lei Feng. The "Morical Lecture Hall" was selected as a high-quality project for ideological and political work in colleges and universities across the country, the "Inheriting Classics to Cultivate Morality and Cultivating People" traditional cultural education project was selected as a demonstration project for national colleges and universities to respect China's excellent traditional culture. The "Cultural Going to the Countryside, Targeted Poverty Alleviation " summer social practice team was awarded the top 100 practice team in the country. "Green Yin Reading Club" was awarded the "Henan Province Outstanding Volunteer Organization" and was shortlisted for the ", four 100" shortlist of ", four" 100" national volunteer service. The school leadership team was identified as the highest level of "good" by the provincial party committee.
At present, all the teachers and colleges adhere to the university spirit of "broadness, depth and wisdom", adhere to the school motto of "learning, seeking truth from facts, practicing self-improvement", promote the school spirit of "diligence, rigorous, harmonious and enterprising", conscientiously implement the goals and tasks clearly defined by the school's third party congress and the school's "13th Five-Year Plan" career development plan, and unswervingly promote the three development strategies of "transformation and upgrading, dual-wheel drive", "characteristic leadership, key breakthroughs", and "collaborative innovation, leveraging the momentum", and strive to build the school into a "high-level university with distinctive characteristics" as soon as possible!
