Normal universities set up psychology specialty earlier, with a long history and good strength. Hunan Normal University is located in the famous historical and cultural city of Changsha. Founded in 1938, it is the first independent normal college for nationalities in China. On 1984, it was officially renamed as Hunan Normal University. It is a well-known comprehensive normal university with a long history. Selected as the first batch of national key construction universities in "2 1 1 Project", the key construction universities in "Basic Capacity Building Project of Central and Western Universities", the key construction universities in "Excellent Legal Talents Education and Training Plan", "Excellent Doctor Education and Training Plan" and the first batch of universities in the national innovative experiment plan for college students, and selected as the "National Postgraduate Project of Building High-level Universities" and "National" The College of Education Science of Hunan Normal University is located at the foot of Yuelu Mountain in Yu Xiu, Zhong Ling, beside the new school gate of Hunan Normal University. Known as "the first hospital of Hunan Normal University" and "the gateway of Hunan Normal University". Its predecessor was the Department of Education of National Teachers College, which was founded in 1938. From 65438 to 0995, the Department of Education of Hunan Normal University merged with the Department of Audio-visual Education to form the School of Educational Science of Hunan Normal University. In 2000, the College merged with the former Department of Education of Hunan Normal University to form the new College of Education Science of Hunan Normal University. The college now has four departments of pedagogy, psychology, preschool pedagogy and educational technology, four research institutes of pedagogy, psychology, curriculum teaching theory and higher education, and the research center of basic education curriculum reform 1 of the Ministry of Education. There are six undergraduate majors: pedagogy, public management (education management direction), preschool education, educational technology, psychology and applied psychology; Two master's majors in pedagogy and psychology (covering two disciplines 13 master's majors), and two master's majors in pedagogy and applied psychology; There are two doctoral programs in pedagogy and basic psychology, and two postdoctoral stations in pedagogy and psychology. Curriculum and teaching theory are the national "2 1 1 engineering" key disciplines, pedagogy and psychology are key disciplines in Hunan province, pedagogy is a national specialty, pedagogy and psychology are provincial specialties, pedagogy teaching and research section is the first excellent teaching and research section in Hunan province, and educational science and technology laboratory is a demonstration laboratory of basic courses in Hunan province. The college has 1 national excellent courses, 4 provincial excellent courses and 14 school-level excellent courses.

The college has a strong faculty. There are 90 full-time teachers, including 25 professors and 4/kloc-0 associate professors, and the proportion of teachers with senior titles is 75%. There are 5/kloc-0 teachers with doctoral degrees (including those in study), accounting for 57% of the total number of teachers. Among the current teachers, there are/kloc-0 outstanding social science experts in Hunan province, 2 experts enjoying special government allowances, 2 young and middle-aged experts in Hunan province, 3 academic leaders in ordinary universities in Hunan province, 9 young backbone teachers in Hunan province, 3 selected as "Hunan Hundred Talents Project" and 7 selected as "New Century Talents Project" in Hunan province.

The college has excellent school conditions and advanced teaching and research facilities. There are 10000 square meters of teaching buildings, including academic lecture halls, microteaching systems, multimedia teaching systems, doctoral teaching bases, LAN central computer rooms, network teaching laboratories, educational technology laboratories, psychological laboratories, teachers' CAI courseware making rooms, nature observation rooms, physical training rooms, art education rooms, piano practice rooms, and 30,000 books consisting of periodical reading rooms, open-shelf reading rooms and electronic reading rooms.

The college has always regarded teaching, scientific research and discipline construction as the center of development, and is committed to cultivating discipline characteristics, improving teaching quality, cultivating qualified talents and improving the overall level of the college. The college has a strong academic atmosphere and remarkable achievements in teaching and scientific research, and has won many national, provincial and ministerial awards. The quality of student training is high, and many outstanding collectives and individuals have emerged. They have made great achievements in various sports, cultural and artistic activities organized by the school, and the admission rate and employment rate of students for postgraduate entrance examination have been at the forefront of the school for many years.