The largest campus of Nanjing Normal University is Xianlin Campus. The whole campus is divided into four districts, East, West, North and South. There is one canteen and four canteens in each district. As far as the overall evaluation of the school is concerned, the eastern dining hall is the best, followed by the western and northern districts, and the southern district is the worst.

Nanjing Normal University, referred to as Nanjing Normal University for short, is located in Nanjing, the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties. It was jointly built by Jiangsu Provincial People's Government, China People and Ministry of Education. It is a national "2 1 1 engineering" key construction university and a national "double-first-class" world-class discipline construction university, and has been selected into "National Construction of High-level Universities" and "Excellent Teacher Training Plan".