In 2023, official website of Liaoning Normal University announced 9 first-class doctoral programs and 56 doctoral programs in 2 disciplines. The professional names of the first-class doctoral program are political science, psychology, education, physical education, Marxist theory, China language and literature, physics, geography, chemistry and biology.

Liaoning Normal University, referred to as "Liaoning Normal University", is located in Dalian, Liaoning Province. It is a "double-first-class" domestic high-level university in Liaoning Province, the implementation school of the "excellent middle school teacher training plan" project of the Ministry of Education, the training and continuing education base of basic education teachers in Liaoning Province, the research and consultation base of educational science, and the teacher training base of colleges and universities.

As of August 2022, the school has two campuses, huanghe road and Xishan Lake, covering an area of 2 100 mu, with a collection of paper books 1.49 million; There are 2/kloc-0 colleges, graduate schools and innovation and entrepreneurship colleges, and 59 undergraduate majors are being recruited; There are 6 mobile post-doctoral research stations, 9 doctoral programs in first-level disciplines, 56 doctoral programs in two disciplines, and doctoral degree authorization points 1.