陕西师范大学英文简介
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Overview of snnu
The main campus of the SNU is located in the south suburbs of the historical city of Xi'an, the
capital of Shaanxi Province in central-northwest China. As part of the new policy to enhance the
overall education of the average Chinese, especially in rural regions, starting in September 2007
the Shaanxi Normal University is among six normal universities, which are directly affiliated with
the State Educational Ministry of China, to exempt students from all tuition fees if they are in an
approved educational degree program.
The university is located in Xi’an, well-known for its cultural history, covering an area of more
than 2,700 mu. It has two Campuses including Yanta Campus and Chang’an Campus. The two
Campuses play different roles in fostering of students. Built in 2000, Chang’an Campus took the
task of fostering junior, senior and postgraduate students. And Yanta Campus with 60-year-history
takes mainly the tasks of not only teaching the foundation subjects and common courses of
freshmen and sophomores, but also fostering teachers, students of further education, trainees and
foreign students. Yanta Campus is next to famous scenic resort of the Great Wild Goose Pagoda, a
fine environment possible to nurture talents; Chang’an Campus, located in “Enterprise Garden of
University Education” at Guodu County, enjoying a grand scale, advanced equipment and modern
facilities. Ministry of Education granted the university a title of “Civilized Campus” for its
beautiful environment, with a famous reputation “the charm is in SNNU” among the universities
in the city.
The university contains 20 colleges and 2 foundation teaching departments, 62 majors, 10 doctoral
mobile programs,6 postdoctoral centers of first rank discipline, 69 doctoral programs, 24 master
centers of first rank discipline, 159 master programs, the authorized organization to issue diploma
for educational masters and the masters of college teachers at work. Among the 12 authorized
organizations with the rights of issuing diploma in our country, SNNU covers 11 authorized
majors including philosophy，economics，laws，pedagogy，literature，history，science，engineering，administration，agriculture，and medicine. It also has three national key
disciplines, one national key discipline on education, two excellent doctoral dissertations among
100 national doctoral dissertations, 2 national bases of fundamental learning and personnel
cultivation,1 national key engineering laboratory, 1 State experimental teaching demonstration
center,1 research base on human sciences under Ministry of Education， 1 sports sociology
research base affiliated to State Sport General Administration, 3 key laboratory & engineering
research centers affiliated to Ministry of Education, 6 key provincial laboratory and engineering
research centers , 3 key provincial research bases on human sciences，5 provincial experimental
teaching demonstration centers, 60 research centers of all lines. The university has College of
Further Education, College o f Internet Education, College of Teaching Carders education,
Vocational Education College of Higher Learning etc. Besides, there are also decades of academic
societies and organizations such as Northwest Normal Teacher Training Center under Ministry of
Education, Northwest Educational Administration training center under Ministry of Education, Basic Education Curriculum Research Center under Ministry of Education, Northwest
comprehensive Book Information Center, Society of history of Tang Dynasty, Society of Chinese
ancient capitals, etc.
The university has a faculty of 2,850, among whom there are 1421 with higher professional
qualifications including 292 full professors, 452 associate professors and 194 doctoral supervisors,
and over 68% of whom have degrees of MA and Ph.D. There are five national experts and five
provincial experts with outstanding contribution respectively, one post of specially hired professor
and one lecture professor under the Project of Changjiang Scholars Award, one national celebrated
teacher, eleven provincial celebrated teachers, three candidates on first and second hierarchs under
“National Project of Millions of Persons”, one candidate on national “New Century Project of
Millions of Persons”, twelve candidates of “New Century Excellent Talents Supporting Project”,
seven candidates of Awards and Subsidizing Project of outstanding young teachers, ten candidates
of “Three-Five Personnel Cultivation Project of Shaanxi Province”, six State outstanding teachers,
one candidate in national propaganda and culture system, one national teaching group and four
