Founded in 1954, Capital Normal University (CNU) dates back to 1905 when Tongzhou Normal University was established. As a top university included in China’s Double First-Class Initiative and a province-ministry co-constructed university co-constructed by Beijing and the Ministry of Education, CNU offers various disciplines, including literature, science, engineering, management, law, education, foreign language and art. Over the past 60 years, CNU has cultivated more than 200,000 senior talents. It is an important base for talent cultivation in Beijing.

CNU boasts 31 faculties and centers, namely the School of Literature, the School of History, the College of Political Science and Law, the College of Education, the College of Teacher Education, the Capital Institute of Basic Education Development and Research, the School of Psychology, the College of Foreign Languages, the College of Marxism Education, the School of Management, the Music College, the College of Fine Arts, the School of Mathematical Sciences, the Department of Physics, the Department of Chemistry, the College of Life Sciences, the College of Resource Environment and Tourism, the Information Engineering College, the Elementary Education College, the College of Preschool Education, the Program in General Education, the School of Continuing Education, the Jingjiang College, the College of International Education, the Research Institute of the Culture of Calligraphy of China, the Honors College, the College of Traditional Chinese Culture Education, the Research Center for Aesthetic Education, the Institute of Cultural Studies, the Academy for Interdisciplinary Studies and so on. It also has the Teaching and Research Department of College English and the Teaching and Research Department of Physical Education. CNU offers 59 programs for undergraduates. An all-round and multi-level education system covering undergraduate education, postgraduate education, doctoral education, post-doctoral education, full-time education, adult education and international education has been formed in CNU. It has totally 28,191 students of all kinds.

In 2003, CNU was declared as Outstanding University in Undergraduate Teaching in the undergraduate teaching evaluation conducted by the Ministry of Education. So far, CNU has 7 national characteristic programs, 10 municipal characteristic programs, 35 programs approved for the construction of national first-class undergraduate program and 14 approved for the construction of municipal first-class undergraduate program. All its traditional education programs have been approved for the construction of national first-class undergraduate program and all colleges and schools open for undergraduates have programs approved for the construction of national first-class undergraduate program.

CNU strives to cultivate outstanding talents. There are 3 bases for the Top Student Training Program 2.0 for Basic Disciplines initiated by the Ministry of Education, namely History, Mathematics and Chinese Language and Literature. Its middle education and primary education were included into the Excellent Teacher Training Program initiated by the Ministry of Education. At the same time, relying on 4 advantageous disciplines (literature, science (engineering), art and education), it has built a three-level (state-university-school) outstanding top talent training system to continuously promote higher development of students.

With more than 14.9 million books and documents collected, CNU’s library is one of the backbone libraries of documents and materials in China. CNU has built a digital campus construction center. A stable, mature and efficient campus network is fully accessible. In addition, there is a national standard plastic sports stadium, gymnasium, badminton hall, swimming pool and other sports venues. 

No.	Code	Name of Major	School System	Property
1	050101	Chinese   Language & Literature	4	Normal
		Chinese Language & Literature	4
2	050107T	Secretary	4
3	130304	Literature   of Theatre Film & Television	4
4	050103	Teaching   Chinese to International Students	4
5	120210	Cultural   Industry Management	4
6	060101	History	4	Normal
		History (base class)	4
7	060102	World   History	4
8	060103	Archaeology	4
9	060107T	Cultural   Heritage	4
10	030503	Ideological   and Political Education	4	Normal
11	030504T	Marxist   Theory	4
12	010101	Philosophy	4
13	030101K	Bachelor   Degree of Law(LL.B) Program	4
14	030302	Social   Work	4
15	120403	Labor   and Social Security	4
16	120401	Public   Affairs Management	4
17	120102	Information   Management and Information System	4
18	120801	Electronic   Business	4
19	020401	International   Economy and Trade	4
20	120108T	Big Data Management and Application	4
21	040101	Education	4
22	040104	Educational   Technology	4	Normal
		Educational Technology	4
23	071101	Psychology	4	Normal
		Psychology	4
24	040106	Preschool   Education	4	Normal
25	050201	English	4	Normal
		English	4
26	050202	Russian	4
27	050203	German	4	Normal
		German	4
28	050204	French	4
29	050205	Spanish	4
30	050207	Japanese	4
31	070101	Mathematics   and Applied Mathematics	4	Normal
		Mathematics and Applied Mathematics	4
32	070102	Information   and Computing Science	4
33	071201	Statistics	4
34	070201	Physics	4	Normal
35	080705	Optoelectronic   Information Science and Engineering	4
36	070301	Chemistry	4	Normal
37	070302	Applied   Chemistry	4
38	071001	Biological   Sciences	4	Normal
		Biological Sciences	4
39	071002	Biotechnology	4
40	070501	Geographical   Science	4	Normal
41	120901K	Tourism   Management	4
42	070504	Geographic   Information Science	4
43	081202	Remote   Sensing Science and Technology	4
44	080901	Computer   Science & Technology	4	Normal
		Computer Science & Technology	4
45	080701	Electronic   and Information Engineering	4
46	080902	Software   Engineering	4
47	080717T	Artificial   Intelligence	4	Normal
		Artificial Intelligence	4
48	130202	Musicology	4	Normal
		Musicology	4
49	130205	Dance	4	Normal
50	130308	Recording   Arts	4
51	130201	Music   Performance	4
52	130401	Fine   Arts	4	Normal
		Fine Arts(Arts Market)	4
53	130402	Painting	4
54	130502	Visual   Communication Design	4
55	130503	Environmental   Art Design	4
56	130508	Digital   Media Arts	4
57	040107	Elementary   Education	4	Normal
	130202	Musicology   (Elementary Education Concentration)	4	Normal
	130401	Fine   Arts  (Elementary Education   Concentration)	4	Normal
58	130405T	Calligraphy   (Elementary Education Concentration)	4	Normal
59	050102	Chinese   Language	4