Founded in
Shanghai in October 1951, East China Normal University (ECNU) is one of the
universities under the direct auspices of the Ministry of Education. As a
comprehensive university especially featuring teacher education, it has been
assessed eligible for the "211 project", a national project of
higher-educational development.ECNU is well known as a "Garden University" for its beautiful campus with beautiful streams, luxuriant trees, green lawns and lovely flower. Scattered about the campus are buildings in traditional and western architectural styles.
With advanced teaching facilities as well as a strong teaching and research force, CNU has 13 academic schools and colleges. These are the Schools of: Humanities, Educational Science, Preschool Education & Special Education, Foreign Languages, Business, Law & Politics. Sports & Health, Sciences & Engineering, Natural Resources & Environmental Science, Life Science, Information Science & Technology, and Colleges of Software Technology and Vocational Education. These schools and colleges consist of 33 departments offering 53 undergraduate programs, 5 of which (i.e. Chinese language & literature, history, mathematics, geography and psychology) are on the list of State training and Research Bases for the Liberal Arts and Natural Sciences.
In addition to its strength in the areas of humanities, social sciences and natural sciences, the University has been making great efforts to develop a series of new disciplines based on recent hi-tech developments and on the current needs of the society (e.g. information science and technology, new materials, life science and technology, ecology, economics, sociology, administration, etc.). At present ECNU has 6 national priority disciplines, 1 state key laboratory, 3 key laboratories under the Ministry of Education, 1 municipal key laboratory and 5 research bases for the humanities and social sciences approved by the Ministry of Education. Its Graduate School offers 61 doctoral programs, 101 master's programs. It also has 8 mobile stations for post-doctoral research. Its teaching faculties include 6 academicians from China Academy of Science and China Academy of Engineering and over 1,100 full and associate professors. Besides 12,000 full-time undergraduate and 4,000 graduate students, every year nearly 1,000 international students from all over theworld are
attracted to ECNU by its
superior strength in many disciplines as well as in teaching Chinese language
and Chinese culture.ECNU has established inter-university cooperative relations with over 80 universities and educational institutes in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, including many top level institutions in the world such as Ecole Normale Superieur in France, University of VSA, Kobe University in Japan, and so on. More than 100 foreign experts were invited to be honorary professors and advisory professors of ECNU.
39. Preschool Education
