Harbin Normal University General Information
Harbin Normal University is located in Harbin, a famous historical and cultural city known as the "ice city and summer capital". It is an important talent training base and scientific research base for education, arts, humanities and social sciences and natural sciences in Heilongjiang Province. It is a key construction of Heilongjiang Province. A high-level university, it is an excellent school in the evaluation of the undergraduate teaching level of the Ministry of Education. The school is a national “Central and Western University Basic Capacity Building Project” university and a pilot university for the comprehensive reform of the Ministry of Education's “Three Comprehensive Education”.
The school has two campuses in Jiangnan and Jiangbei, covering an area of 1.547 million square meters, with a construction area of 1.519 million square meters, fixed assets of nearly 2.95 billion yuan, and teaching and scientific research equipment worth more than 400 million yuan. There is an exhibition center with four halls as the core, with the school history hall and the cultural museum hall as the core. The library has a total collection of more than 12 million volumes, and is a "National Key Ancient Book Protection Unit"
Harbin Normal University Education
The school has 25 colleges, 80 undergraduate enrollment majors, and a group of provincial key first-level disciplines (groups) and provincial leading talent echelons. The school has a complete system of conferring bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees. There are 10 first-level disciplines authorized by doctoral degree, 21 first-level disciplines authorized by master's degree, 12 professional master's degree authorized categories, and 5 post-doctoral research stations. Demonstration base for joint training of postgraduates with master's degree. The discipline of materials science and engineering has entered the ranks of world-class disciplines. Materials science and chemistry are among the top 1% of ESI's global disciplines. The four first-level disciplines of Marxist theory, education, fine arts and Chinese language and literature have entered the top 30% of the country, and have been selected as the provincial "double first-class" construction disciplines. The Marxist College is a national key Marxist college.
Harbin Normal University Scholarship
The school is an enrollment institution for "Chinese Government Scholarship", "International Chinese Teacher Scholarship" and "Heilongjiang Provincial Government Scholarship". The school has passed the quality certification of studying in China organized by the Ministry of Education with excellent results.Department of Education of Heilongjiang Province consigns Harbin Normal University to enroll excellent students to study for Bachelor's, Master's and Doctor's Degree. International students may choose programs from the given form and their tuition in China will be paid by Heilongjiang province government.
Heilongjiang Provincial Government Scholarship will offer international students their fees and spending on tuition, accommodation (double room), Comprehensive medical insurance and monthly living allowance of ￥3500 (Doctorate student ONLY). The scholarship does not include international travel expenses. Students who require more practice or experiment than the teaching plan of university have to pay the extra cost themselves.
Harbin Normal University International Exchange and Cooperation
The school makes full use of the location advantage of being located in the center of Northeast Asia, and adheres to the road of international school running. It has successively established close educational science and technology cooperation and academic exchanges with more than 80 universities and scientific research institutions in 30 countries and regions including Russia, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Japan, Canada, Australia, Poland, South Korea, Brazil, and Egypt. The school and Moscow State Surikov Academy of Fine Arts jointly established the first Sino-foreign cooperative education institution in Heilongjiang Province, "Harbin Normal University International Academy of Fine Arts". Four Confucius Institutes and one independent Confucius Classroom have been established overseas. Among them, the London Confucius Institute for Traditional Chinese Medicine has been rated as "Global Advanced Confucius Institute" for five consecutive years, and has become the first model Confucius Institute in the world. The school was rated as "Advanced Chinese Cooperation Institution of Confucius Institute". China's Chinese Proficiency Test (HSK) Base, "International Chinese Language Teacher Certificate" Certification Center, Heilongjiang Province Chinese International Promotion Teacher Training Center and other institutions are located in our school.
Since 1984, HRBNU has fostered more than 14,000 international students of over 66 countries from all over the world. Our university has formed multi-level and multi-disciplinary international students’ education system including long-term and short-term general training students, bachelor students, master students, and doctoral students. There are several enrollment categories such as self-financed students, government scholarship students (Chinese Government Scholarship, Chinese Language Teachers Scholarship, and Heilongjiang Provincial Scholarship), University scholarship students, exchange students, and program students. Now HRBNU enrolls over 1,000 long-term and short-term international students every year. The Institute has achieved remarkable results in personnel training, and international students have won awards in various competitions at all levels. Many international students majoring in master's degree in Chinese international education have been admitted to the "local Chinese teachers" positions funded by the Confucius Institute Headquarters. In 2018, our university passed the national accreditation for studying in China with outstanding achievements.