Hubei Normal University (HBNU) is a key provincial university which is specialized in teacher education and focuses on such disciplines as humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. Adhering to the strategies ofserving the basic education, the University is characterized by its teacher education as well as the research in education. Hubei Normal University, with the authority to confer Master's degree, is claimed as one of the excellent universities in China in the national teaching quality evaluation of undergraduate programs.

Located in the downtown area of Huangshi, the University occupies the beautiful campus of 1.4 square kilometers with a total floor space of some 596, 900 square meters. The campus has beautiful sceneries of green hills and a transparent lake with fragrant flowers and various green plants all year round, providing a desirable environment to nurture talents. It has been granted such titles as Garden Style Unit of Hubei, Secure and Civilized Campus of Hubei and Civilized Unit of Hubei. It is an ideal place to study and research in.

Hubei Normal University consists of twenty colleges and departments. It offers courses for thirty-two Master’s degree programs, forty-seven Bachelor’s degree programs. The university has constructed three state-level characteristic specialties, one state-level excellent course, seven provincial key and characteristic disciplines, seven provincial brand specialties and twenty excellent courses in the province, one state-level experimental teaching demonstration center, six provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers, one provincial key lab and three provincial key research bases of humanities and social sciences.

Hubei Normal University has the highly qualified faculty and staff of about 1300 members, many of whom enjoy high prestige in their respective academic circles in China.

The University library, awarded as one of the excellent libraries in Hubei Province, has a collection of books totaling over 1.85 million volumes and 2.47 million electronic books. Moreover, the campus network center of HBNU is one of the thirty-eight PoPs of China Education and Research Network.

The University has various kinds of service organizations and facilities, such as supermarkets, western food canteens, post office, clinic, banks, theaters, computer centers, gymnasium, stadiums, students’ activity centers, etc. which make HBNU a desirable environment to study and stay in. The Performance Center of HBNU and the teaching building of College of Music are located by the Qingshan Lake. The Performance Center of HBNU, also named as “Lotus on the Water”, is a state-of-the-art performance center among the universities in China, which has once served as a site for the 8th National Art Festival.

In recent years, HBNU has presided 638 research projects that are funded by the National Science Foundation and Provincial Government. In recent years, HBNU has won 27 pieces of practical patents of invention, 33 national and provincial prizes, and published 127 academic monographs and textbooks and 5,146 treatises, among which 728 treatises are indexed by some famous index systems, such as SCI, EI, AHCI, and ISPT, etc. Thereafter, the university is awarded as the “Advanced Unit for Serving Science & Technology in Hubei” and “Advanced Unit for the Progress of Science and Technology in Hubei”.

Hubei Normal University adheres to the open-door policy and values its links with many foreign universities in such countries and regions as USA, UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Japan, etc. The University has been inviting foreign teachers, famous international scholars and scientists to teach and deliver lectures to the students and faculty since its foundation. It also dedicates itself to dispatching its teachers and students abroad for exchange, study, teaching and cooperative research.

Hubei Normal University attaches great importance to the students' growth and prospective development. Currently there are some 20,000 full-time students on the campus. The rate of employment of the graduated students is in the leading place among the provincial universities. Accordingly, the University is entitled as the "Advanced Collective" on graduates’ employment rate and the "Advanced Unit" on sponsoring the teacher education in Hubei.

Since its foundation, HBNU has already brought up more than 80,000 students who have been well appreciated bytheir employers and the communities. In the new century, Hubei Normal University has set a goal to strive to run itself into a top multidisciplinary university with the main feature of teacher education in China.