The trump cards of Northwest Normal University include ideological and political education, pedagogy, educational technology, physical education, Chinese language and literature, English, history, mathematics and applied mathematics, physics, chemistry and so on. Among them, pedagogy and psychology are specialties with national characteristics. In addition, Northwest Normal University ranked 188 in the first-class professional (research-oriented) ranking of China University in 2023. Six majors were rated as five-star majors in China (5★), 24 as four-star majors in China (4★) and 20 as three-star majors in China (3★).