Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai is a public research university located in Zhuhai, China, with strong emphasis on basic disciplines of humanities and sciences. It is belongs to one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in China.
A normal school referred to an institution that aimed to train school teachers in the early twentieth century, and this terminology is preserved in the official names of such institutions in China even after such schools gained university status and expanded to offer courses other than education-related fields. The term reflects BNU's heritage as a former unit of the Imperial University of Peking dedicated to training schoolteachers.