Shandong Normal University

Shandong Normal University
山东师范大学

Type	Public
Established	1950
Students	around 37.000
Location	Jinan, Shandong, People's Republic of China
Nickname	Shanshi (山师)
Website	http://www.sdnu.edu.cn

Shandong Normal University (simplified Chinese: 山东师范大学; traditional Chinese: 山東師範大學; pinyin: Shāndōng Shīfàn Dàxué, English acronym SDNU) is a university located in Jinan City, Shandong Province, China. It is one of the earliest institutions of higher learning established in Shandong Province since the founding of the People’s Republic of China.

History

Predecessor schools of teachers education in Shandong date back to 1902. The university itself was established in 1950 and was known as 山东师范学院 (Shandong Normal College) until 1981. The university moved to its current campus in Changqing District in 2003.

Campus

The university has two campuses, covering an area of 600 acres. Currently there are more than 34,600 full-time Chinese students and more than 200 international students.

Qilu Culture Research Centre and Elementary Teaching Courses Research Centre at SDNU are the only two key research centers of the humanities established at provincial universities by the Ministry of Education of China (MOE). SDNU publishes six worldwide academic periodicals. Among them is China Population Resources & Environment, which is the only academic journal focusing on sustainable development in China.

SDNU has established co-operative relationships with 59 universities from more than 15 countries and regions. Since 2011, it regularly employs foreign instructors for special two-week courses in English on issues relating to the web and media through the School of Communications. SDNU is one of the first universities approved by the Ministry of Education of China (1983) to recruit international students and to receive international China scholarship students. And SDNU is among the HSK exam centers approved by MOE. Since then, over 5,000 international students have graduated from the university.

External links

Shandong Normal University website (Chinese)

Universities and colleges in Shandong

National

Provincial

Jinan	Shandong Normal University University of Jinan Shandong University of Finance and Economics Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine Shandong Jianzhu University Qilu University of Technology Shandong Women's University

Qingdao	Qingdao University Shandong University of Science and Technology Qingdao University of Science and Technology Qingdao Technological University Qingdao Agricultural University

Yantai	Yantai University Ludong University Shandong Institute of Business and Technology

Other cities	Shandong Agricultural University Qufu Normal University Shandong University of Technology Liaocheng University Linyi University Binzhou Medical College Jining Medical University Weifang Medical University Weifang University Harbin University of Science and Technology at Weihai

Private

Vocational

See also: List of universities in China

Shandong topics

Jinan (capital)

General	History Politics Economy

Geography	Cities North China Plain North China craton Mount Tai Shandong Peninsula Yellow River Hai He Grand Canal of China Weishan Lake Laizhou Bay Bohai Sea Yellow Sea

Education	Shandong University Ocean University of China China University of Petroleum Shandong Normal University

Culture	Lüju opera Ji Lu Mandarin Zhongyuan Mandarin Jiao Liao Mandarin Qingdao dialect

Cuisine	Braised Chicken Haw flakes Moo shu pork Sha tang

Visitor attractions	List of sites in Jinan Baotu Spring Daming Lake Thousand Buddha Mountain Lingyan Temple Pizhi Pagoda Great Wall of Qi Penglai City Qingdao beach resort city Temple and Cemetery of Confucius Shou Qiu

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