Henan Institute of Education is the only provincial normal college in the province that mainly trains primary and secondary school teachers and educational administrative cadres. Its predecessor was Henan Education Administrative Cadre School, which was established in 1955 and 1978 as Henan Education College.
The College is located in Zhengzhou, one of the "Eight Ancient Capitals of China". For a long time, the college has adhered to the basic education, serving the grassroots, taking the road of connotation development and running schools with characteristics, and gradually formed a school-running pattern that pays equal attention to academic education and non-academic education, general education and adult education, and pre-service education and post-service education.