| Harbin Normal University | |
| Native Name: | 哈尔滨师范大学 |
| Native Name Lang: | zh-hans |
| Established: | 1951 |
| Type: | Public |
| President: | Wang Xuanzhang |
| Students: | 32,000 |
| City: | Harbin |
| Province: | Heilongjiang |
| Country: | China |
| Campus: | Urban |
| Website: | www.hrbnu.edu.cn |
Harbin Normal University (HNU) is a university located in Harbin, Heilongjiang province.
HNU has 27 Schools and Departments and offers 77 academic majors. It offers undergraduate, graduate, and doctorate degrees. It is a key university of Heilongjiang and is under direct administration of Heilongjiang Province Department of Education. Its predecessor was Hsing-chih Normal School which was named after T'ao Hsing-chih-a famous educationist, and founded in 1946 by the Chinese Communist Party.
HNU has a decent educational condition and strong faculty, it covers 3.46 million square meters land, has a building area of 150.1 square meters, a total value of 2.435 billion yuan in fixed assets, and teaching and research equipment worth 2.5 billion yuan.HNU adheres to open education, engaging in comprehensive international communications, and has already built up intimate relationship of educational technology cooperation and academic exchange with more than 70 higher education institutions from 20-odd countries. Three Confucius Institute have been set up by HNU. Daejin University, a South Korean private university, operates one of its two China campuses on the university grounds, with the other campus located at Soochow University in Suzhou.[1] Daejin maintains its own building with accommodation and classrooms.[2] also Yu Wenxia Miss World 2012 completed a four-year course in Folk Music in this university.