Northeast Normal University, formerly known as Northeastern University, was founded in Benxi, Liaoning Province in February/946, and then moved to Dandong, Tonghua, Meihekou, Jilin, Changchun and Harbin during the war, and settled in Jiamusi in June/946.
1July, 948, Jilin moved south, merged with Jilin University, named Northeastern University, and began to explore the regularization of running schools.
From 1948 to 1949, the former Shenyang Northeastern University, Changchun University and Changbai Teachers College merged into Northeastern University, making Northeastern University the largest comprehensive university in Northeast China at that time.
1July, 949, the school moved to Changchun.
1950 In April, according to the needs of the development of national education, Northeastern University was renamed Northeast Normal University, which was under the Ministry of Education and became a normal college with the goal of cultivating new middle school teachers.
1958 In April, Northeast Normal University was decentralized to Jilin Province, and in June of the same year 10, the school was renamed Jilin Normal University.
1978 February, with the approval of the State Council, the school was placed under the leadership of the Ministry of Education again.
1August, 980, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, the school resumed the name of "Northeast Normal University". Since then, Northeast Normal University has entered a new period of vigorous development, gradually restoring the original disciplines, adding new disciplines and establishing graduate schools.
1996, becoming the first batch of national "2 1 1 project" key universities.
In 2009, he undertook the project of "985 Innovation Platform for Educational Advantages of Engineering Teachers".
In recent years, with the support of "2 1 1 Project", "985 Innovation Platform for Superior Discipline of Engineering Normal Education" and the agreement between the Ministry of Education and Jilin Province, Northeast Normal University has entered a new stage in discipline construction, personnel training, teaching staff, scientific research, international cooperation, social services and overall school-running conditions. Now it has developed into a comprehensive research university with its own characteristics in philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, agriculture, management, art and other disciplines.