Hainan Normal University is an academic institution in the process of applying for the right to confer PhDs ratified by the Academic Degrees Office of the State Council, and a school that received an “excellent” rating in the nationwide evaluation of undergraduate education monitored by the Ministry of Education. Founded in the autumn of 1949, the university is a key provincial university with a long history, distinctive teacher education and fairly good overall strength. It is located in Haikou City, a beautiful city for seaside tourism with a renowned history and culture.

The university now has 21 schools, 11 Class-1 master’s degree programs, 3 professional master’s degree program for education, 58 undergraduate programs.  The university now accommodates 3 campuses—the South Longkun Road campus, the Guilinyang campus and the Lingshan campus, covering an area of 1,500,000 square meters. With 110,320,000 Yuan worth of teaching and scientific research equipment, it is home to thirty-two labs, including one key lab co-funded by Hainan Province and the Ministry of Education, one key provincial lab, and five provincial demonstration centers for experimental teaching. The university now has 187 internship bases for various purposes, and the university library has a collection of 1,520,000 paper books and 1,200,000 e-books.

 The university enrolls students from 30 provinces (including municipalities and autonomous regions), and now has a student population of over 20,000, of whom 700 are postgraduate students, 18,000 are full-time undergraduates and 600 are foreign students. The school’s graduates are well received in society because of their solid foundation, high quality and strong level of competence. Across Hainan, over 80% of middle school teachers, and 90% of school principals, teachers with special classification, and keynote teachers are graduates of our university, earning it the reputation of being “an elite school in Hainan and a cradle for teachers”.