This university is located in Lanzhou City, Gansu Province, and is a key university jointly established by the people of Gansu Province and the Ministry of Education. It is one of the 14 universities in the western region supported by the state. Supported by Beijing Normal University. Did you guess that?She is Northwest Normal University.
So what does she have to do with "Xi Shi"?
First, the abbreviation of Northwest Normal University is "Xishi", which is a homonym with "Xishi";Second, according to the data of the 2023 freshmen released by Northwest Normal University on August 30, 2023, there will be 1,680 male students and 3,174 female students in the undergraduate new students in 2023, with a male-female ratio of 1:189。Among the new graduate students, there are 1,265 males and 2,676 females, with a male-to-female ratio of 1:212。The college with the largest number of female students is the College of Foreign Chinese, with 476 students, compared to 84 men. It is indeed a beautiful woman, comparable to Xi Shi.
Not only does she have a beautiful nickname, but she also has a long history and strength.
Long history: The school was formerly known as National Peiping Normal University, which originated from the Normal Hall of Beijing Normal University established in 1902, changed to "National Beijing Higher Normal School" in 1912, and changed to "National Peiping Normal University" in 1923. After the "77" Incident in 1937, the National Peiping Normal University, the National Peiping University and the Beiyang Institute of Technology, which moved westward at the same time, jointly formed the Northwest Associated University, and the National Peiping Normal University was reorganized into the School of Education under the Northwest Associated University, and later changed to the Normal College. In 1939, the Normal College of Northwest Associated University was established independently, renamed the National Northwest Normal College, and moved to Lanzhou in 1941. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the National Northwest Normal University continued to run schools in Lanzhou. In 1958, it was transferred from the Ministry of Education to the leadership of Gansu Province and changed to Gansu Normal University. In 1981, it was renamed Northwest Normal University.
Strong strength: (1) Good academic reputation: Northwest Normal University is a university with a long history and excellent academic reputation in the field of education, and its education discipline system is perfect, especially in the fields of education and psychology.
2) The school has a good reputation:
3) Broad employment prospects: It is understood that the employment rate of undergraduates in the university is more than 95%, which is widely distributed in the education departments, institutions, colleges and universities inside and outside Gansu Province.
4) There are many characteristic majors. The ace majors of Northwest Normal University include ideological and political education, pedagogy, educational technology, physical education, Chinese language and literature, English, history, etc. Among them, education and psychology are national-level characteristic majors. In addition, Northwest Normal University ranks 188th in the country in the 2023 Chinese University Ranking of First-Class Majors (Research), with a total of 6 majors rated as China's five-star majors (5), 24 majors rated as China's four-star majors (4), and 20 majors rated as China's three-star majors (3).