Capital Normal University was founded in 1954, and its history can be traced back to Tongzhou Normal University, which was founded in 1905. It is a national "double first-class" construction university and a "provincial * * * construction" university of Beijing and the Ministry of Education. The school's existing disciplines cover literature, science, engineering, management, law, teaching, foreign languages, art and so on. Over the past 60 years, it has trained more than 200,000 senior professionals in various fields, which is an important base for talent training in Beijing.
The school consists of 18 departments, including the Faculty of Arts, the Department of History, the Faculty of Political Science and Law, the Conservatory of Music, the Academy of Fine Arts, the School of Foreign Languages, the School of Educational Sciences, the Department of Mathematics, the Department of Physics, the Department of Chemistry, the School of Life Sciences, the School of Resources, Environment and Tourism, the School of Information Engineering, the Department of Educational Technology, the College of Primary Education, the College of Adult Education, the College of International Culture and the College of Cod (independent colleges).
The school has 60 master's programs, 26 doctoral programs, 2 first-class discipline doctoral degree authorization points, 4 postdoctoral mobile stations, and 1 project postdoctoral mobile station students. There are 6 municipal key disciplines, 2 municipal key construction disciplines 1, 3 municipal key laboratories 1, national scientific research and talent training bases for basic disciplines 1, sports and art talent training bases of the Ministry of Education 1, and national key research bases for humanities and social sciences of provincial universities 1.