Capital Normal University

Brief Introduction: Capital Normal University (CNU), founded in 1954, is a comprehensive institute of higher learning, embracing the sciences, liberal arts, engineering, management, law, education, foreign languages and arts, a key university of the Beijing municipality and a major training base particularly for teachers training in Beijing. CNU has been included in the government project of developing one hundred key universities in China in the 21st century. CNU has started to recruit international students since 1965. Under the backdrop of higher education internationalization, Capital Normal University has been following closely the trend of the times, with turning into an international university as its objective, transmitting and innovating the culture as its task. CNU is looking forward to establishing much closer relations with the rest of the world, attracting outstanding experts and scholars, and absorbing their creative ideas. Capital Normal University would like to become a bridge between cultures of various nations in the world for mutual communication and improvement so as to promote integration and development of a diversified culture of the world. In addition to 60 Masters and 26 Doctoral programs, CNU boasts 17 colleges and 45 departments that comprise more than 26, 000 students at present. All specialties of CNU are open to international students. Chinese, history, education, fine arts, music, dancing, calligraphy and some other specialties are especially popular with international students.