Shaanxi Normal University

Overview

Shaanxi Normal University

Shaanxi Normal University (SNNU) is a public university located in Shaanxi Province of China. It was established in 1944 as Shaanxi Provincial Teachers’ College, became Xi’an Teachers’ College in 1956, and merged with Shaanxi Teachers’ College in 1960 to become Shaanxi Normal University. An influential and comprehensive teacher training university, SNNU belongs to the top-ranked institutions in the country with contributions in the fields of chemistry, mathematics, and biology.

Shaanxi Normal University Key Statistics

SNNU is composed of 26 schools and departments including the School of Food Engineering and Nutritional Science, School of Material Science and Engineering, School of Physics and Information Technology, and the School of Teacher and Administrator Education. The university offers more than 300 undergraduate and graduate degree programs.

Shaanxi Normal University has 17,766 undergraduate students, 20,233 postgraduate students, and employs more than 1,900 full-time teachers. The university has two campuses, the Yanta and Chang’an campuses, and they offer facilities such as dormitories, supermarkets and stores, canteens and restaurants, banking and postal service, gift shop, and the university hospital.

Other Shaanxi Normal University key statistics include the two main libraries that hold more than 3 million cataloged volumes, close to 2,800 Chinese and foreign periodicals, and 159 newspapers in addition to electronic resources including over 1 million e-books and 19,000 Chinese and foreign electronic journals.

Shaanxi Normal University Research

SNNU is a key university under national Projects 211 and 985 and has undertaken more than 2,000 research projects at or above the provincial or ministerial level in the fields of humanities, social sciences, and natural science.

The top fields of Shaanxi Normal University research are materials science, chemistry, and computer science. Their researchers have attended and presented at conferences such as the Soft Computing conference in 2011, Joint International Conference on Information Sciences in 2016, and the Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention in 2020.

The most cited articles from the university are Tang et al.’s (2020) “Estimation of the transmission risk of the 2019-nCoV and its implication for public health interventions” published in the Journal of Clinical Medicine with close to 900 citations, Jv and Li’s (2010) “Positively-charged gold nanoparticles as peroxidiase mimic and their application in hydrogen peroxide and glucose detection” featured in Chemical Communications and has more than 740 citations, and Liu et al.’s (2015) “Two-inch-sized perovskite CH3NH3PbX3 (X = Cl, Br, I) crystals: Growth and characterization” that appeared in Advanced Materials which has over 720 citations.

Research centers and institutes at SNNU include key laboratories at the national, ministerial, provincial, and university levels such as the National Engineering Laboratory of Endangered Official Plant Resources Development in Northwest China, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Modern Instructional Technology, Shaanxi Provincial Key Laboratory of Ultrasonics, and the SNNU Key Laboratory for Gene Therapy.

Shaanxi Normal University has produced more than 417,000 graduates including Chinese scholar Kang Zhen, history teacher and political activist Zhao Changqing, historian Zhu Xueqin, scientist Feng Dengguo, and Zhang Pingxiang, engineer and hailed as the pioneer of superconducting materials and applications in China.