Hangzhou Normal University (HZNU) is now developing into a comprehensive university, with a comparatively complete coverage over the subjects of teacher-training and other fields. As one of the earliest universities qualified by the Ministry of Education of China, Hangzhou Normal University has been entitled to grant Bachelor and Master’s degrees to its students and enroll international students.

Located in Hangzhou, a famous city of long history and rich cultures, HZNU has a Fundamentals Department of Social Sciences and 14 secondary schools with specialties of 29 four-year programs and more than 10 two-year programs.

They are School of Humanities, School of Science, School of Life Sciences, School of Information Technology, Academy of Music, School of Physical and Health Education, School of Fine Arts, School of Foreign Languages, School of Politics and Economy, School of Educational Science, School of Law, School of Medicine, School of Elementary Education, School of Qianjiang, covering 10 subjects, such as philosophy, literature, law, economy, history, education, science, engineering, management and medicine. HANU has been entitled to grant Master’s degrees to graduate students of Musicology, Basic Mathematics, Study of Curriculum and Instruction, Study of Chinese Characters, Zoology and Chinese Philosophy. HZNU has 10 key subjects of the college-level, among which , Musicology is the key subject of the province-level, and Study of Curriculum and Instruction is the subject supported by Zhejiang Province.

HZNU has modern educational facilities which include the Computer Center, Audio-visual Educational Information Center, Network Teaching Laboratories, Multi-media Micro-teaching Laboratories, Multi-media Classrooms, Music Hall, Artists Gallery, a standard 400M synthetic-track sports field, campus-net, cable TV and broadcasting systems. The school’s library gives the access to over 1,100,000 book volumes and over 2,700 kinds of periodicals and newspapers.

HZNU has over 14,000 full-time students and over 20,000 part-time students as well as over 900 full-time academic teachers, among which, over 400 are professors, associate professors and senior research staff. HZNU has 20 research institutes (centers), such as the Research Institute of Master Hongyi and Feng Zikai, the Research Institute of Demographic Theory, the Research Institute of Territorial Culture, the Research Institute of Local History of Zhejiang, the Research Institute of New Chemical Materials, the Research Institute of Mathematics and its Application, etc.. In recent years, HZNU has made outstanding achievements in academic research.

More than 160 projects have been undertaken, ranging from city-level, province-level to nation-level, and over 130 of which have been awarded the academic research prizes at different levels. Over 2330 academic papers and 209 monographs and translated works have been published.

Having established intercollegiate cooperation with more than 10 universities from the USA, the South Korea, Australia, the Philippines, Malaysia and Canada, HZNU takes part in the international culture exchange and extensive cooperation, exchanging visiting teachers and students, developing academic exchanging or running a school cooperative project with universities abraod.

At present, HZNU is carrying out the courses for Master of Educational Leadership in association with the University of Canberra, Australia. HZNU has held successfully the international academic exchange programs such as the International Symposium on Ma Yifu, Academic Conference on Mathematics Education, and the international Symposium on Master Hongyi. HZNU has International Exchange Center for Culture and Education, a large number of students from abroad have been recruited by this Center.