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Former names | Kwang Hua University | ||||||
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| Motto | 求实创造，为人师表 | ||||||
Motto in English | Pursue what we have not been taught, and practice what we are going to teach[1] | ||||||
| Type | Public university | ||||||
| Established | 1951; 75 years ago (1951) | ||||||
| President | Xuhong Qian | ||||||
| Students | 32,000 | ||||||
| Location | Shanghai ,China | ||||||
| Campus | North Zhongshan Rd. Campus (1072.25 acres) Minhang Campus (2071.53 acres) | ||||||
| Colors | Ecnu red | ||||||
| Affiliations | AALAU Yangtze Delta Universities Alliance | ||||||
| Mascot | ECNU Lions | ||||||
| Website | ecnu.edu.cn | ||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 华东师范大学 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 華東師範大學 | ||||||
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East China Normal University (ECNU) is apublic university inShanghai, China. It is affiliated with theMinistry of Education and co-funded with the Shanghai Municipal People's Government. The university is part ofProject 211,Project 985, and theDouble First-Class Construction.
It was formed in 1951 by the merger of the Great China University (est. 1924) and Kwang Hua University (est. 1925) and originated from theSt. John's College founded in 1879. As of 2020, ECNU is organized into 22 schools, colleges, and institutes, located in two campuses throughoutMinhang andPutuo.
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East China Normal University traces its roots to the formation ofSt. John's College (later to become St. John's University) in 1879, and its heritage has had a deep influence in the development of Chinese modern higher education.[2]
In 1879, St. John's College was founded byWilliam Jones Boone andJoseph Schereschewsky,Bishop of Shanghai, by combining two pre-existing Anglican colleges in Shanghai. In 1905, the college became St. John's University and was registered in Washington D.C. in the United States. It was the first institution to grantbachelor's degrees in China, starting in 1907.[citation needed]
After theMay Thirtieth Movement in 1925, some academics and students left theSt. John's University, later forming the private Kwang Hua University to support thelabor and anti-imperialist movement during the middle period of theRepublic of China era.[citation needed]
In 1924, after astudent protest at theXiamen University in Fujian some academics fled north to Shanghai, where they established what became the Great China University (also known as Daxia University).[citation needed]
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, East China Normal University was officially formed in 1951 by the merger of the Great China University and the Kwang Hua University, and was joined at the same time by a number of faculty members fromFudan University,Tongji University,University of Shanghai and East China PE Academy, making it the first national teacher's training university of the People's Republic of China. This was done in part due to the government's desire to pool these institutions' resources into a single, stronger entity, cultivate talents with professional knowledge, and promote the development of education in the country.[citation needed]
In the 1950s, the Chinese government regrouped the country's higher education institutions in an attempt to build a Soviet-style system. Under this policy, most of the faculties fromSaint John's University,Zhejiang University,University of Shanghai,Utopia University, andAurora University were incorporated into ECNU to form a comprehensive multi-disciplinary university. Some of the academics at theTongji University andJiaotong University were also transferred to ECNU.[3]
In March 1959, ECNU was authenticated as one of the first 16National Key Universities in China, and this status was reaffirmed in 1978. From 1972 to 1980 (during theCultural Revolution inmainland China), five schools including ECNU were merged to createShanghai Normal University, and in 1980 its original name was resumed.[4]
In June 1986, ECNU was one of the first 33 higher education institutions authorized, by the State Council, to establish theirgraduate schools.[citation needed] In 1996, ECNU passed the prerequisites appraisal and became one of universities sponsored by the major national program "Project 211". In 2006, the Ministry of Education and Shanghai Municipality signed into a partnership for co-sponsoring the development of the university, qualifying ECNU as a member of the "Project 985".[citation needed]
ECNU is now under the direct auspices of the Ministry of Education. The university sponsors or supervises publication of more than 20 academic journals and periodicals. The library collection exceeds 4,000,000 volumes. 25 primary or secondary schools are affiliated to the university.[citation needed]
The university has established strategic cooperative partnership with universities such asÉcole Normale Supérieure and its group in France, theUniversity of Pennsylvania andCornell University in USA,Tokyo University andKobe University in Japan, and theUniversity of Melbourne in Australia, theUniversity of Warwick in the UK, etc. It has been carrying out academic exchanges with over 150 universities and institutions of Great Britain, France, Germany, Japan,the United States, Canada, Australia,Korea, and Russia, etc. ECNU plays host to aCIEE satellite campus, where 100 American college students study each semester. The university also runs an Online College of the Chinese language in collaboration with theNational Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (NOCFL), which is the first of its kind to be established in the country with over 5,800 students in 137 countries and regions. In 2008, it set up theNOCFL Study and Training Base for International Chinese Teachers.
Along with several other Chinese universities, East China Normal University has hosted the United Kingdom (UK) government-fundedStudy China Programme for a number of years.[11] In this programme, students from UK institutions spend one to two summer months studyingMandarin Chinese andChinese culture at a university in China. The programme is organised by theUniversity of Manchester and is fully funded byUK government bodies, such as theDepartment of Business, Innovation and Skills. Its purpose is to strengthen ties between UK university students and China, in particular as relatively few British students enroll in degrees in China. The programme has increased relations between ECNU and numerous leading UK universities.[12]
Sponsored by Shanghai Municipal Education Commission and Shanghai Foreign Affairs Office, the Diplomats' Program has been organized by ECNU since 2011. In this program, consular officials from over 20 countries spend two months during summer studying at East China Normal University.[13]
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| BCUR National[25] | Domestic | 30 | |
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| Wu Shulian National[26] | Domestic | 33 | |
| CUAA National[27] | Alumni | 25 | |
| QS National[28] | General | 26 | |
| THE National[29] | General | 20–24 | |
| QS Asia (Asia version)[30] | General | 111 | |
| THE Asia (Asia version)[31] | General | 56 | |
| ARWU World[32] | Research | 201–300 | |
| QS World[33] | General | =433 | |
| THE World[34] | General | 251–300 | |
| USNWR World[35] | General | =230 | |
ECNU has always been ranked the top two among the mainland Chinese universities in Education and Training according to the most recentQS World University Rankings by Subjects[36] andAcademic Ranking of World Universities by Subjects.[37]
In 2021, it was ranked 37th globally in theTimes Higher Education Rankings by Subjects in "Education",[38] which is historical strengths of the university as suggested in the name "Normal". East China Normal graduates employability rankings placed at # 151-200 in the world in the 2017 QS Graduate Employability Rankings.[39] Globally, East China Normal University is regarded as a competitive university with a good reputationChinese universities by theTimes Higher Education World Reputation Rankings where it ranked 151-175th.[40][41]
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