Hubei Normal University (HBNU), with a history of over 30 years and the authority to confer Master’s degree, is a comprehensive normal university directly under the supervision of Hubei Provincial Government.
Located in Huangshi, the second largest city by the Yangtze River in Hubei Province, HBNU has a campus of 1.335 square kilometers with a total floor space of some 500,000 square meters. The campus has beautiful sceneries of green mountains and a transparent lake with fragrant flowers and various green plants all year round, providing a desirable environment to nurture talents. It has been granted the titles such as Garden Style Unit of Hubei, Secure and Civilized Campus of Hubei and Civilized Unit of Hubei. It is an ideal place for studying and doing research.
HBNU consists of 17 colleges, departments and 3 secondary institutes. It offers courses for 26 Master’s degree programs, 39 Bachelor’s degree programs and 18 diploma programs, covering 7 disciplines, including literature, history, economics, law, education, science and engineering. Currently there are some 20,000 full-time students in the university. HBNU also boasts a highly qualified teaching contingent of 856 teachers, among which, there are 102 professors, 238 associated professors, 80 with Doctor's degree, 380 with Master’s degree, many of whom enjoy high reputations in their respective academic circles in China.
The unviversity has 5 Brand Specialties in the province, which are Chinese Language and Literature, Education in Ideology and Politics, Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry. It also has 1 outstanding discipline, 2 characteristic disciplines and 5 key disciplines in Hubei Province, including Study of Literature and Art, Chinese Philology, Applied Mathematics, Optics and Analytical Chemistry. Additionally, 14 courses have been listed as the top grade courses at the provincial level.
The university library, considered as one of the several excellent libraries in Hubei Province, has a collection of books totaling over 1.45 million volumes and 3,400 odd kinds of Chinese periodicals and 40 odd foreign language periodicals. Moreover, “Journal of Hubei Normal University” (Philosophy and Social Sciences) is selected as “National Chinese Core Periodical”. Additionally, the campus network center of HBNU is one of the 38 PoPs of China Education and Research Network.