Lianyungang Normal College
Updated:2015-12-10
Lianyungang Normal College is a full-time regular school approved by Ministry of Education in March, 2000. It is initially combined by the former Lianyungang Education College, former Haizhou Normal School and former Lianyungang Normal School. Later, in 2002, Lianyungang Management College of Economy Cadres affiliated with it. In 2011, having a cooperation in student training with Jiangsu Normal University (formerly, Xuzhou Normal University), it developed as Lianyungang Branch of Jiangsu Normal University.
LNC has a history of nearly 100 years since the setup of the 8th Provincial Normal School. Over the years, it has cultivated over 40,000 talented teachers who have devoted to the education cause of North of Jiangsu or even throughout the country.
LNC covers an area of 1,225.25 mu, among which, the Land Plan and Construction area takes up 400,000 square meters. LNC currently has a total of 565 faculty members and an enrollment of over 8,000 full-time students, among which, there are over 1,000 undergraduates. With an impressive collection of more than 634,800 books, the library is equipped with 25 databases. Apart from that, LNC has for many times been cited as a provincial and municipal model unit. In recent years, the employment rate of graduates amounts to over 95% and the satisfaction proportion of the employing unit is over 90%.
LNC currently has a total of 409 full-time teachers including 47 professors and 198 associate professors. Teachers with senior titles account for 59.90% of the total. Among the 409 full-time teachers, 29 have obtained their PhD’s degree and 284 master’s degrees, accounting for 76.53% of the total.
LNC puts particular emphasis on the strategy of opening education and actively promoting extensive international exchanges and cooperation. LNC has established partnerships and cooperative relationships with overseas colleges and universities in America, Canada, England, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Russia, South Korea and Japan for cooperation in Sino-foreign cooperative education and exchange. The number of joint program students and exchange-program students is up to 300.
Focusing on international education and to cultivate internationalized talents with international vision and international competition ability, excellent teachers and students are selected to study overseas. Every year, LNC enrolls overseas students from Asia-Pacific area, America, Canada and other countries to study specialist areas and Chinese.