Qufu Normal University

Qufu Normal University is one of the key universities in Shandong Province. It is located in Qufu, the home town of Confucius---the great philosopher, educator and the creator of Confucianism. It has its new campus in the beautiful coastal city---Rizhao. In more than 50 years after its foundation, the university has been taking Confucius’ words as its instructional standard: “ To retain curiosity in learning, to teach and never become weary”.
The instructional standard also aims for a very healthy mood: diligence, simplicity, unity and personal initiative. It has trained and provided more than 130 thousand qualified graduates to society and it has been making a great contribution to Shandong’s economic construction.
The university has six doctoral degree programs, seventy-seven master degree programs of which seven were regarded as the first courses of study. It has fifty-five four year specialties which cover ten branches of learning including literature, science, industry and law. The university has one independent college (Xing Tan College), twenty-nine schools and departments, twenty-eight research institutes, fourteen provincial key programs and three provincial key laboratories. National Physical Educational Social Science Key Research Base, Shandong Basic Curriculum Reform Center, Shandong Laser Polarization Engineering and Technology Center, Shandong Confucius Research Base and Shandong Physical Educational Social Science Research Base were also set in the university.
The university invited Dr. Ding Zhaozhong who was awarded a prize of Nobel and a famous physicist as its honored president. It also invited two academicians and eight professors from different universities. There are 2360 faculty and staff. The faculty numbers 1300 of whom 199 are professors and 261 are associate professors. Five young experts were respectively awarded national and provincial recognition for their exceptional contributions. There are eleven faculty who were honored as Shandong outstanding professionals in their fields. Forty faculty are candidates for the academic backbone of Shandong high schools, and twenty-six faculty shared the nation subsidy. The university now has 2049 post-graduates, 25203 four- year and two -year students and 14198 continuing education students.
The university covers an area of more than 2535 mu (about 166 hectare). Its building area occupies over 738 thousand square meters. The teaching and research assets are valued at 152 million yuan. The library houses 2.61 million books. Four academic magazines are published by the university: Qilu Publication, Qufu Normal University Journal, High School Math, and Modern Chinese. The university is one of the first 200 universities announced by the Education Ministry which have the right to accept foreign students. It has established a friendly relationship with 26 universities from abroad.