Anhui Normal University

Anhui Normal University

安徽师范大学
Motto	"厚德(Ethic) 重教(Educate) 博学(Eclectic) 笃行(Endeavour)"
Type	Public
Established	1928
Location	Wuhu
Campus	3
Colors	Blue and Gold
Nickname	安師大
Website	ahnu.edu.cn

Anhui Normal University
Gate of the Old Campus
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Ānhuī Shīfàn Dàxué

Anhui Normal University (Chinese: 安徽师范大学; pinyin: Ānhuī Shīfàn Dàxué) is an institution of higher learning in Wuhu, Anhui Province of the People's Republic of China.

Approved by the State Council in 1972, it was officially renamed Anhui Normal University, and the name was written by Guo Moruo.

Anhui Normal University is the only university in Wuhu to accept foreign students. The College of International Education (Chinese: 国际教育学院; pinyin: Guójì Jiàoyù Xuéyuàn) usually has over 150 foreign students of many different nationalities including Cuban, British, French, German, Egyptian, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, Yemenese, Japanese, Russian, Pakistan etc.

Founded in 1928, Anhui Normal University is the oldest institution of higher education in Anhui Province and also one of the national comprehensive universities established at early stage. The university has 16 colleges, 7 doctoral programs, 72 post graduated programs, 56 undergraduate programs. So far, there are 35000 students from different provinces, more than 2600 teaching staffs, among them over 580 are professors and associate professors.

At present, the university has three campuses. It has an area of more than 3300 Mu(about 230 hectares), construction area of about 7.2 million square meters. The library comprises 2.576 million volumes of books, among which there are over 600 kinds of classical collections. It also has domestic and international natural resources and data bank.

The university attaches great importance to both domestic and international exchanges in education, and has established and developed long term friendly cooperation with several dozens of universities, research institutes, academic organisations in U.S.A., England, Germany, Sweden, Finland, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Canada, and regions of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and has conducted all sorts of academic exchanges and cooperation, which have raised the teaching and research quality, and advanced its level of academic globalization.

The university is one of the earliest batched institutions of higher education appointed by the State to receive Chinese government scholarship international students, and one of the first national bases of Chinese language and culture to Overseas Chinese. Since 1985 it has received nearly 3000 foreign students from more than 40 countries for long and short term training.