Sichuan Normal University, located in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province, is one of the first batch of key universities in the "Basic Capacity Building Project for Colleges and Universities in the Midwest" and a "double-class" construction plan university in Sichuan Province. It is a provincial key university with the earliest undergraduate normal education and the longest running history in Sichuan Normal University.
He has been selected into the national excellent teacher training plan, excellent engineer education training plan, national new engineering research and practice project, national innovation plan and Sichuan 20 1 1 plan. It is an institution that implements the policy of free education for normal students and a national model university that deepens the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education.
At the same time, he is also a key research base of humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of Education, a national first-class undergraduate specialty construction site, a member of the Sino-Russian "Yangtze River-Volga River" university alliance, and a member of the Chengdu-Chongqing Shuangcheng Economic Circle university alliance, and has the qualification of recommending graduate students to be exempted from examination.
The school was founded on 1946. In the early days of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, Northeastern University moved to Santai County, Sichuan Province. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Northeastern University moved back to Shenyang, and teachers and students from Liuchuan founded the North Sichuan College of Agriculture and Industry. 1949, Xishan College was absorbed and renamed as North Sichuan University; 1950 merged with North Sichuan College of Literature and moved to Nanchong City, Sichuan Province.
1952 Sichuan Normal University was established with North Sichuan University as the main body, and some majors of East Sichuan Education College (formerly China Rural Construction College), Sichuan University and West China University were merged. 65438-0956, the undergraduate major of the school moved to Lion Mountain in Chengdu. 1964 The former Chengdu University (now Southwestern University of Finance and Economics) was merged into the school.
1985, approved by the State Education Commission, was renamed Sichuan Normal University. 1999, Chengdu Coal Cadre Management College of the former Ministry of Coal was merged into the school.
As of May 2023, the school has three campuses, namely Lion Mountain Campus, Jackie Chan Campus and Suining Campus, with a campus area of more than 3,400 mu. There are more than 37,000 full-time undergraduates, more than 4,000 doctoral and master students, and more than 3,000 teaching and research personnel. There are graduate schools and 26 colleges.