Hunan Normal University, founded in 1938 and located in the famous historical and cultural city of Changsha, is one of the key universities in the national "Project 211" construction, the national "double first-class" construction university, the Ministry of Education and Hunan Province to jointly build the "double first-class" construction university, and the Ministry of Education assessed the undergraduate teaching level of ordinary institutions of higher learning as an excellent university。The university covers an area of nearly 3,000 mu with a construction area of 1.33 million square meters。The main campus is nestled in the west mountain, east Xiangjiang River, beautiful scenery, is one of the national green "400 best" units。

The university consists of 24 schools with 94 undergraduate programs. Undergraduate and postgraduate education covers 12 disciplines including philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, medicine, management, arts and interdisciplinary studies。The school has six national key disciplines, including Ethics, English Language and Literature, modern Chinese history, developmental biology, theoretical physics and basic mathematics，Foreign language and literature selected as National "World-class Construction Discipline"，Eleven disciplines, including Chemistry, Clinical medicine, Materials science, Engineering science, Plant and Zoology, Environment and Ecology, physics, Biology and Biochemistry, Mathematics, General Social science and Computer science, are ranked in the top 1% of ESI worldwide，Philosophy, Biology selected as "World-class Cultivation Disciplines" in Hunan Province，The developmental biology and biological breeding discipline group was selected as the dominant characteristic discipline group in Hunan Province，Eighteen disciplines including theoretical economics, law, political science, Marxist Theory, education, psychology, physical Education, Chinese Language and Literature, Journalism and Communication, Chinese history, mathematics, physics, chemistry, geography, statistics, Computer science and technology, Basic medicine, and art were selected as key disciplines in the 14th Five-Year Plan of Hunan Province。It has 20 first-level disciplines authorized for doctoral degrees, 3 categories of doctoral professional degrees, 34 first-level disciplines authorized for master's degrees and 31 categories authorized for master's professional degrees，And 20 mobile postdoctoral research stations;It has the key research base of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education, the Research Center of Chinese Ethical Civilization, and the Key Research Center of Sports and social Sciences of the State General Administration of Sport，Research Base for Culture and Tourism, Ministry of Culture and Tourism，The State Ethnic Affairs Commission has forged a research and cultivation base for the consciousness of the Chinese nation community，Have a socialist moral culture with Chinese characteristics of the province co-construction collaborative innovation center;It has the National Talent Training and scientific Research Base of Chinese Language and Literature, History, National Liberal Arts Basic disciplines, National Life Science and Technology Talent Training Base, National College Students' Cultural Quality Education Base, Basic Education Curriculum Research Center of Hunan Normal University of the Ministry of Education, National Red Classic Art Education Demonstration Base, National Outstanding Legal Talent Education and Training Base, and National Outstanding middle school teachersThere are 17 national talent training and scientific research bases (centers), including the universities implementing the training program, the pilot universities of the National Excellent Doctor Education and Training Program, the Chinese excellent traditional Culture Inheritance Base (Huagu Opera), the universities selected by the Ministry of Education's Sports and Aesthetic Education Infiltration Action Plan, and the National Language Promotion Base;It has the State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Fish Developmental Biology jointly built by the province and the Ministry，Two national and local joint engineering laboratories for the precise utilization of petrochemical new materials and resources and the creation of animal polypeptide drugs，3 key laboratories of the Ministry of Education，1 Engineering Research Center of the Ministry of Education，1 Carpio carassius genetic breeding center of the Ministry of Agriculture;3 "2011 Collaborative Innovation Centers" in Hunan Province，It has four Hunan Provincial top students training bases for basic disciplines: Biological science, physics, Chinese Language and literature, and philosophy.18 key laboratories of Hunan Province，2 Engineering Technology Research centers of Hunan Province，1 Hunan Engineering Research Center，1 International science and technology innovation cooperation base in Hunan Province，1 germplasm resource bank of Hunan Province，1 Hunan Double Carbon Research Institute，7 key laboratories of universities in Hunan Province and 5 demonstration bases of university-industry cooperation in Hunan Province;It is one of the first provincial key think tanks in Hunan Province，It has three provincial-level professional think tanks: the Moral Culture Research Center, the "Belt and Road" Cultural Exchange and Communication Research Center, and the Ecological Environment Protection Rule of Law Research Center.It has 11 social science research bases in Hunan Province，7 Key research bases of philosophy and social sciences in Hunan Province，5 "14th Five-Year Plan" educational science research bases in Hunan Province，2 social science popularization bases in Hunan Province，1 Social science innovation Research base in Hunan Province，One of the first key laboratories of philosophy and social sciences in Hunan Province，Selected as one of the first national health school construction units;It has 9 national characteristic professional construction points，There are 49 national first-class undergraduate professional construction points，Hunan Province has 16 first-class undergraduate major construction points，There are 4 national talent training model innovation experimental areas，10 national quality courses，National curriculum ideological and political demonstration courses 2，9 national excellent resource sharing courses，National first-class undergraduate courses 49，6 national quality video open courses，There are 3 national bilingual teaching model courses，15 national teaching achievement awards，There are 4 national experimental teaching demonstration centers，2 national off-campus practice education bases for college students，It is the implementation unit of the "National Innovative Experimental Plan for College Students" project，Demonstration university of "Deepening Innovation and Entrepreneurship education Reform in the whole country"，Top 50 universities with typical experience in innovation and entrepreneurship in China，Ministry of Education ideological and political work backbone on-the-job doctoral special plan enrollment unit，It is the Ministry of Education, the Ideological and Political Work Team Training Center of Hunan Province, and the Network Ideological and Political Work Center of the Ministry of Education (Hunan).。

The school has nearly 3,600 staff and more than 2,300 full-time teachers。One of them is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences，2 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering，4 members of the European Academy of Sciences，The subject review group of The State Council has 3 members，1 member of the Faculty of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences，There were 52 national major talent projects selected，There are 4 national teaching teams，2 national "Huang Danian" teacher teams;There are 12 candidates for the national "tens of millions of Talents Project"，There are 85 people who enjoy the special government allowance of The State Council，There are 5 young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions to the country，Central Propaganda Department cultural masters and "four batch" talent project selected 9 people，A total of 36 people were selected as sponsors of the Ministry of Education s New (Cross-Century) Talent Support Program, and one person was selected as a candidate for the Ministry of Finance s Master Accountant Training Program，The Ministry of Science and Technology young and middle-aged scientific and technological innovation leading talents 2，There are 4 national famous teachers，Hunan Province science and technology leading talent 10，Hunan Province "Furong Scholars" award program candidates 60 people, "Lotus teaching master" 3 people, Hunan Province key talent introduction program candidates 35 people, Hunan Province "New Century 121 talent project" candidates 76 people, Hunan Province "Academic leaders" 37 people, Hunan Province "outstanding contributions to social science experts" 2 people, Hunan Province "excellent social science experts" 1Six people，Hunan Province "Hunan Young Talents" support program candidates 48 people，Huxiang high-level talent gathering project 28 people，Hunan Province think tank leading talents 4, think tank youth top talent 3。

The University has established cooperation and exchange relations with 207 universities and institutions in 52 countries and regions，Carry out personnel exchanges, teaching and research cooperation，The Confucius Institute was jointly established with Kazan Federal University in Russia and Wonkwang University in Korea.Sino-foreign cooperation programs have been carried out with Glinka Conservatory of Music in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, University of Central Lancashire, University of Delaware, Germany, Berlin School of Media Design, St. Joseph's University, United States, and Macau School of Nursing。The university has a study abroad Demonstration base of the Ministry of Education, a Study Abroad Training and Research Center of the Ministry of Education and a Chinese language education base of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council。Three national and regional research centers, including the Center for American Studies, entered the list of national and regional research centers of the Ministry of Education。The university library has a collection of nearly 4.3 million volumes, including more than 240,000 ancient books, and 117 various document databases。The university sponsors 16 academic journals, including 6 national Chinese core journals;The university Publishing House is the "National Top 100 Book Publishing Unit" and the national first-class publishing house。

Since its establishment, the school has sent more than 500,000 graduates to the country, trained a large number of international students and students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and its alumni are all over the world。The school has more than 40,000 students, including more than 14,000 graduate students and nearly 1,000 long-term and short-term international students, and has formed a multi-specification and multi-level education pattern。

Face the future，Hunan Normal University will always uphold the spirit of "benevolence, love, refinement and diligence" school motto，To carry out the fundamental task of moral cultivation，Based in Hunan，Serve the whole country，Face the world，Make every effort to build "innovative normal University, characteristic Normal University, open Normal University, wisdom and happiness Normal University"，Strive to create a new situation in the construction of a high-level university with distinct characteristics of teacher education, first-class in China and well-known in the world。

(Data are available as of June 2024)