Taiyuan Normal University (TNU) is a full-time higher normal university which is mainly engaged in undergraduate teacher-training education and also has non- teacher-training and postgraduate education. It was merged by Teachers College of Shanxi University, Taiyuan Teachers College and The Shanxi Institute of Education in 2000.

TNU covers a land of 1,050,000 square meters with about 870,000 square meters of construction area. The library now has a stock of over 1,265,000 national and international printed books and 8,750,000 e-books, 171 databases of electronic resources. The university has more than 24,000 undergraduate students, 278 postgraduates and 3,000 adult students from 28 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions nationwide.

TNU comprises 20 colleges and faculties and 2 teaching departments, offering 60 different undergraduate majors and covering 9 disciplines of Economics, Law, Education, Literature, History, Science, Engineering, Management and Art, while the master degree program includes 3 first-grade discipline master programs in Geography, Chinese Language and Literature, Mathematics, and 3 professional master’s programs in Engineer (Computer Technology), Art and Education. TNU has about 1443 faculty members and working staff with 848 full-time teachers among them, including 110 professors, 296 associate professors and 146 doctors.

TNU at present has established friendly cooperative relations with more than 10 universities at home and abroad, and has signed cooperative agreements with the State University of New York at Albany, Northern Michigan University, Fisk University in America, Aston University in UK, Brandon University in Canada, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg in Germany, the University of Adelaide in Australia. The university has also sent students for exchange and study for several consecutive years at the following universities: State University of New York at Albany and State University of New York at Purchase in America, Accademia di belle arti DI FOGGIA, University of Florence, Florence National Academy of Fine Arts in Italy, Selkirk College in Canada. TNU also invites famous experts and scholars to come to give lectures, and sends excellent teachers to famous domestic and international universities and institutions for study and academic exchanges.

We warmly welcome international students to come to study at Taiyuan Normal University, and sincerely hope to enforce the friendly cooperation and exchanges with foreign universities and institutions.

Programs for International Students

International students have the following options of study on both degree and non-degree programs at Taiyuan Normal University. Degree programs include Bachelor Program, Dual-degree Program and Master Program. Non-degree programs include Chinese Language Program, Visiting Student Program, Research Scholar Program and Short-term Program.