Jilin Normal University, referred to as "Jilin Normal University", is located in Siping City, Jilin Province. It is a key university in Jilin Province, the implementation unit of the excellent teacher training plan of the Ministry of Education, the backbone teacher training center of senior high schools in Jilin Province, the teacher training center of colleges and universities and the teacher education research center, and has been selected as the national college students' cultural quality education base and the winner of the China government scholarship for overseas students. ?

Jilin Normal University was founded as Siping Teachers College, 1958. 1962 to 1966, Jilin provincial government merged tonghua normal college, baicheng normal college and Jilin normal college into Siping normal college. 1973, the school was upgraded to Siping Normal College and renamed Jilin Normal University in 2002.

As of April 2023, the school has two campuses, Siping and Changchun, covering an area of 6,543,800 square meters and a construction area of 680,000 square meters. Total value of fixed assets is17438+0 million yuan; The library has 2,260,800 books; There are 19 colleges, 1 teaching departments, 1 doctoral degree authorization points? , 20 master's degree authorization points, 1 1 master's degree authorization points; There are 66 undergraduate majors, full-time undergraduates 18340, and 3277 graduate students. Faculty 1630.

Jilin Normal University was founded in September of 1958 and 15, when it was named Siping Teachers College. At the beginning of the school, there were only 29 faculty members and 285 students, who were divided into four majors: Chinese, Mathematics, Geography, Politics and History. The school didn't have its own school building, so it borrowed the second floor of the west building (student dormitory) of Siping No.1 Middle School as a school building and started its own way of running a school.