The symbol of the school emblem is a muduo, which appeared in Xia and Shang Dynasties. This is an organ with a metal frame. In ancient times, Mu Duo, whose tongue was made of wood, announced decrees, and later Mu Duo became a reference for teachers. "The Analects of Confucius" records: "There is no way in the world for a long time, and heaven will take Confucius as a priest." Later generations extended this statement, calling the teacher the head of Mu Duo, who has always been the school emblem of Beijing Normal University.

Beijing Normal University is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC) (China), directly under the central government, and is a vice-ministerial level. Ranked in the top two, 985 project, 2 1 1 project, one of the first ten key universities in the 785.

For more than 100 years, Beijing Normal University has always shared the same fate with the Chinese nation's progressive cause of striving for independence, freedom, democracy and prosperity, and played an important role in patriotic movements such as the May 4th Movement and the December 9th Movement. The school adheres to the fine tradition of "patriotism and progress, honesty and simplicity, being realistic and innovative, and being a teacher by example" and the school motto of "learning to be a teacher and be a teacher by example", and has formed the educational concept of "learning to be excellent and being an official".