Northeast Normal University was founded in 1946, formerly known as Northeastern University. It is the first comprehensive university founded by China * * * Production Party in the northeast. 1950 was renamed northeast normal university according to the needs of national education development. 1958 was placed under the management of Jilin Province and renamed as Jilin Normal University. 1980 was re-assigned to the Ministry of Education and renamed Northeast Normal University.
The ace majors of Northeast Normal University are national majors: psychology, accounting, ideological and political education, environmental science, primary education, physics, biological science, geographical science, Chinese language and literature, English, history, mathematics and applied mathematics.
National "double first-class" construction disciplines: Marxist theory, world history, mathematics, chemistry, statistics, material science and engineering.
National key disciplines: ideological and political education, educational principles, world history, cell biology, ecology.
Key disciplines in Jilin Province: Marxist theory, education, world history, chemistry, biology, ecology, statistics, materials science and engineering.