Shaanxi Normal University (SNNU; ) is a public university in

Chang'an Chang'an (; zh, t=長安, s=长安, p=Cháng'ān, first=t) is the traditional name of the city now named Xi'an and was the capital of several Chinese dynasties, ranging from 202 BCE to 907 CE. The site has been inhabited since Neolithic time ...

Xi'an Xi'an is the list of capitals in China, capital of the Chinese province of Shaanxi. A sub-provincial city on the Guanzhong plain, the city is the third-most populous city in Western China after Chongqing and Chengdu, as well as the most populou ...

Shaanxi Shaanxi is a Provinces of China, province in north Northwestern China. It borders the province-level divisions of Inner Mongolia to the north; Shanxi and Henan to the east; Hubei, Chongqing, and Sichuan to the south; and Gansu and Ningxia to t ...

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

. It is affiliated with the

Ministry of Education An education ministry is a national or subnational government agency politically responsible for education. Various other names are commonly used to identify such agencies, such as Ministry of Education, Department of Education, and Ministry of Pub ...

. The university is part of the

Double First-Class Construction The World First-Class Universities and First-Class Academic Disciplines Construction (), together known as Double First-Class Construction (), is a higher education development and sponsorship scheme of the Chinese central government, initiated ...

and

Project 211 Project 211 ( zh, c=, links=no, s=211工程) was a higher education development and sponsorship scheme of the government of China for "preparing approximately 100 universities for the 21st century", initiated in November 1995. There were 115 ...

. In 1960, then Xi'an Teachers College (西安师范学院) and then Shaanxi Teachers College (陕西师范学院) merged to form the provincial Shaanxi Normal University. In 1978, it was transferred to the Ministry of Education for management.

Colleges

* Department of Humanities and Social Sciences * Department of Science and Engineering * College of Political Economy * College of Chinese Literature * College of History & Civilization * College of Education * College of Psychology * College of Foreign Languages * College of Continuing Education * College of Physics & Information Technology * College of Chemistry & Materials Science * College of Life Sciences * College of Tourism & Environment * College of Sport * College of News and Media * College of Computer Science * College of Music * College of Fine Arts * College of International Business * International College of Chinese Studies * Department of Minority Studies * College of Distance Education * College of Mathematics & Information Science * College of Food Engineering & Nutritional Science * College of Teachers' & Administrators' Training

References

External links

Shaanxi Normal University's official website in English.Official website in Simplified Chinese.
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