Northeast Normal University is directly under the Ministry of Education. Northeast Normal University is located in Changchun City, Jilin Province. It is a comprehensive research university directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC), which was jointly established by the Ministry of Education and the People's Government of Jilin Province. It is a national "double-first-class" construction university, a national "21project" and "985 engineering advantage discipline innovation platform", and has been selected into the national "1 1 plan", "national training plan" and excellent teacher training plan.

Northeast Normal University, formerly known as Northeastern University, was founded in 1946, which is the first comprehensive university founded by China. 1950 according to the needs of the development of national education, it was renamed Northeast Normal University, which is under the Ministry of Education. From 65438 to 0953, the school began to recruit and train graduate students. 1958 was placed under the management of Jilin Province and renamed as Jilin Normal University. 1980 was re-assigned to the Ministry of Education and renamed Northeast Normal University.