Northeast Normal University

Established in Changchun in 1949, the university was renamed "Northeast Normal University" in 1950. Then it was put under Jilin Province's administration in 1958 and the name 'Jilin Normal University' was adopted. In 1996, it was selected as one of the first group of universities given priority in construction in the "211 Project". 

The university comprises 23 schools, 78 undergraduate specialties, 38 M.A. programs of the first-level discipline, 17 M.A. master programs of professional degree, 22 Doctoral programs of the first-level discipline, two doctoral program of professional degree, 20 Post-doctoral Research Stations and 5 national key disciplines. In all, NENU has all the 11 disciplines except for Military Science and Medicine.

Scientific research strengthens the university, and great successes have been achieved. NENU regards scientific research as the foundation of strengthening school, forming such superior representative disciplines as Education, History, Ideological and Political Education, Biology, Ecology and Chemistry. In recent years, the four disciplines, including Chemistry, Materials Science, Engineering, and Plant and Animal Science, have been listed in the top 1% of the ESI global ranking, and NENU has ranked fourth of the ESI total cited articles among national colleges and universities.