Nanjing Normal University is a national "double-class" construction university and a high-level university construction university in Jiangsu Province. The main source of the school can be traced back to Sanjiang Normal School founded in 1902, which is one of the birthplaces of higher normal education in China.
After that, it went through Liangjiang Excellent Normal School, Nanjing Higher Normal School, National Southeast University, National Fourth Sun Yat-sen University, Jiangsu University, National Central University and National Nanjing University. Its other source is Huiwen Academy founded by 1888, which later developed into Jinling University. 195 1 merged with Jinling Women's College of Arts and Sciences (formerly known as Jinling Women's University) to form a public Jinling University. In the new development period, Nanjing Normal University will comprehensively deepen the comprehensive reform, further promote the connotative development, steadily improve the quality of running schools and the ability of collaborative innovation, and coordinate the three paths of comprehensiveness, research and internationalization.