Xinjiang Normal University is a key normal college in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. It was established on 1978 and 12 with the approval of the Ministry of Education. Its predecessor was Urumqi No.1 Normal School and Xinjiang Normal College. Xinjiang Normal University is one of the first newly-built universities in China after the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, bathed in the spring breeze of the reform and opening up of the party and the country.

There are 20 colleges in the school, among which Marxist College is the national key Marxist College. The school is authorized by 1993 master degree unit and 20 13 doctor degree unit. At present, there are six first-level discipline doctoral degree authorization points and 1 education doctoral degree authorization points, 19 first-level discipline master degree authorization points, 13 professional master degree authorization points and 67 undergraduate majors, covering 6544 disciplines and majors.

The faculty of the undergraduate department of the school 178 1 person (preparation 1684 people, 97 people employed by the school, excluding logistics staff), and 430 people in middle schools, affiliated primary schools and kindergartens. The school has full-time university teachers 1084, including senior teachers 184, 325 deputy senior teachers, and the proportion of senior titles reaches 47%. At present, the school has 3 experts who enjoy the special allowance of the State Council, 2 national cultural experts and 2 "four groups" talents.

The school pays attention to connotation construction and quality improvement. National key construction discipline 1 discipline, autonomous region dominant discipline revitalization engineering construction discipline 1 discipline, autonomous region characteristic discipline innovation engineering construction discipline 3. There are 23 first-class majors, including 15 national first-class majors and 8 autonomous regional first-class majors.