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Huaibei Normal University
By admin on 2015-07-01

A Brief Introduction

The university was founded in 1974 as Anhui Normal University at Huaibei. Approved by the State Council and established as Huaibei Coal Industry Teachers College in December, 1978, it was assigned to be administered by the former Ministry of Coal Industry and started to enroll students from all over China. After September of 1998, the university operated in a management system of “being jointly constructed by both the central and Anhui municipal governments, but mainly administered by the latter”. The university was authorized to confer master degrees in 2003 and received “Excellence” level in the quality level evaluation of undergraduate education conducted by the Ministry of Education in 2007. In 2009, HNU was enrolled as an institution with the approved program of constructing it into a unit with the right to confer doctoral degrees and was also approved to establish postdoctoral posts in Anhui Province. In the same year, it signed an agreement with Anhui University to jointly cultivate doctoral degree candidates. There are now more than 20,000 full-time undergraduate and post-graduate students at school, 18 schools and 56 undergraduate specialties in HNU. It has become a key university in Anhui Province with a large scale in school-running, a wide coverage of the disciplinary categories and distinctive features. Based on concentration on cultivating talents for Anhui with a consideration of serving the whole country, HNU will maintain its characteristics and strive to become a high-level teachers university with distinctive features, a balanced development of multiple disciplines and popularity in certain fields within China in the near future.

Conditions of School Operation

The university is located in Huaibei City of Anhui Province which is a national energy base and a Nationally Designated Garden City in China. Situated at the foot of a mount, the university campus is full of pleasant scenes and strong humanistic taste with green grasses, trees and flowers which are not only luxuriant, but also well-spaced. It has been entitled “Garden-like Unit of Anhui” and “Model Unit for Greening in China”. The university covers a total area of 140 hectares with more than 500,000 square meters of floor area. Up to now, the university has stored about 1,530,000 books in its library. The university now has 4 provincial-level key laboratories, 2 provincial-level key research centers of humanities and social sciences, 17 characteristic discipline laboratories jointly constructed by both the central and Anhui municipal governments, 4 provincial-level model centers for experimental teaching of foundation courses. There are also an affiliated experimental high school (a provincial-level model senior high school), 1 experimental primary school and 106 regular graduation fieldwork bases.

Social Reputation

The university has cultivated more than 50,000 talents of different specialties during the last 37 years. It has been widely recognized by society and praised by its superiors for its high quality in school-running. It has been named three times in succession “Advanced Unit of Talent Cultivation in Anhui Province”. The university has also been entitled “Advanced Unit of Anhui Province”, “Advanced Unit in Employment Work among the Regular Undergraduate Universities in Anhui Province”, and “Advanced Unit in Management of Scientific Research in Anhui Province”, etc. Besides, it has been entitled “National Advanced Unit in University Students’ Social Practice in China” and “Excellent Service Team” for 21 times in succession by its superiors during the past 19 years.

Disciplines and Specialties

I. Master Degree Disciplines

1. 1st level disciplines (9 disciplines)

1	Chinese Language and Literature	6	Biology
2	Mathematics	7	Software Engineering
3	Chemistry	8	Chinese History
4	Education	9	Fine Arts
5	Materials Science and Engineering

2. 2nd level disciplines (51 2nd level disciplines and 1 professional degree)

1	Basic Principles of Marxism	27	Preschool Education
2	Ideological and Political Education	28	▲Higher Education
3	Law Theory	29	Andragogy
4	Literature and Art	30	Vocational and Technical Education
5	Linguistics and Applied Linguistics	31	Special Education
6	Chinese Philology	32	Education Technology
7	▲Chinese Classical Documents	33	Educational Law
8	Ancient Chinese Literature	34	Educational Economy and Management
9	Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature	35	Educational Administration (professional degree)
10	Chinese Ethnic Language and Literature	36	▲Materials Physics and Chemistry
11	Comparative Literature and World Literature	37	Materials Science
12	Basic Mathematics	38	Materials Processing Engineering
13	Computational Mathematics	39	Botany
14	Probability and Mathematical Statistics	40	Zoology
15	▲Applied Mathematics	41	Physiology
16	Operational Research and Cybernetics	42	Hydrobiology
17	Inorganic Chemistry	43	Microbiology
18	Analytical Chemistry	44	Neurobiology
19	▲Organic Chemistry	45	Genetics
20	Physical Chemistry	46	Developmental Biology
21	Polymeric Chemistry and Physics	47	Cell Biology
22	Applied Chemistry	48	Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
23	Educational Principle	49	Biophysics
24	Curriculum and Teaching Methodology	50	Ecology
25	History of Education	51	Physical Education and Training
26	Comparative Education		Note: ▲Provincial-level key discipline

II. Undergraduate Specialties

1	Chinese Language and literature◆	30	Network Engineering
2	Mathematics and applied Mathematics◆	31	Social Sports
3	Physics	32	Marketing Management
4	Chemistry◆	33	Applied Psychology
5	Ideological and Political Education	34	Materials Physics
6	English	35	Environmental Sciences
7	Fine Arts	36	Sociology
8	Physical Education▲	37	Music Performance
9	History▲	38	Accounting
10	Biological Sciences▲	39	Electronics and Information Technology
11	Musicology	40	Advertising
12	Law	41	Communications Engineering
13	Educational Administration (Changed into Public Services and Utilities Management in 1999)◆	42	Japanese
14	Art and Design	43	International Economy and Trade
15	Computer Science and Technology◆▲	44	Chemical Engineering and Technology
16	Painting	45	Tourism Management
17	Electronic Information Science and Technology	46	International Politics
18	Applied Chemistry	47	Statistics
19	Labor and Social Security	48	Information Management and Information System
20	Preschool Education	49	Information Safety
21	Information and Computing Science	50	Digital Media Technology
22	Electronic Commerce	51	Logistics
23	Biology Engineering	52	Special Education
24	Journalism	53	Gardening
25	Social Work	54	Financial Management
26	Education Technology	55	Human Resource Management
27	Materials Chemistry	56	Materials Science and Engineering
28	Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages		Note: ◆State-level characteristic specialty ▲Provincial-level characteristic specialty