Nanjing Normal University (NNU) is a "Double First-class" university in China and a high-level university in Jiangsu. As a century-old school, famous masters come forth in large numbers and have a profound cultural heritage. The school currently has three campuses: Xianlin, Suiyuan and Zijin, covering an area of 2179633 square meters. The university has 28 secondary schools, two independent institutes, philosophy, classics, law, teaching, literature, history, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, management, arts and other disciplines, 54 professional undergraduate admissions (class), covering 78 professionals, there are 26 PhD authorized disciplines, 42 master's degree authorization discipline.

● century-old school: started in 1902

● national "Double First-class" universities

● national "project 211" key comprehensive university

● the first batch of open universities in China

● national demonstration base for studying in China

●national base for teaching Chinese as a foreign language

●the first batch of Chinese language education bases (more than 1800 overseas students are studying in NNU in the whole year)

●Suiyuan campus: "the most beautiful campus in the east"

Introduction to school of fine arts

The school of fine arts has a history of 117 years (dating back to 1902). Its predecessor was Liangjiang Normal School, which was presided over by Li Ruiqing in the late Qing dynasty. In 1928, it became the art education department of the National Central University. After 1949, it was renamed the fine arts department of Nanjing University, the fine arts department of Nanjing Normal University, and the fine arts college of Nanjing Normal University in 1999. Xu Beihong, Zhang daqian, Chen zhifu, Lu sibai, Huang junbi, Huang xianzhi, Zhang shuqi, Fu baoshi, Qin xuanfu and other famous art experts and scholars successively took charge of the administration or taught here. At present, the school has calligraphy department, Chinese painting department, western painting department, history and theory department, fine arts education department, sculpture department, visual communication department, environmental art design department, photography and media art department, animation department, product design department. Academy of fine arts is the "national sports and art teacher training base",  the major of fine arts (teacher education)--undergraduate courses pilot work colleges and universities of Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, each major is open for the admission of undergraduate and graduate students in China and overseas.

Department of  calligraphy

● Nanjing Normal University has a long history of calligraphy education, from the school founder, supervision of Liangjiang Normal School ,Li Ruiqing, to the year of 1949 and after, Shen Zishan, Wei Tianchi, Ma Shida, etc., were all from the university , and so that known for its emphasizing on the Chinese traditional culture and the nature of Chinese calligraphy education.

● Nanjing Normal University is one of the first universities in China to offer calligraphy undergraduate program.

● in 1984, it was allowed to admit calligraphy undergraduates.

● in 1985, it began to recruit students for the admission of master students in calligraphy.

● in 1988,it began to recruit calligraphy undergraduate students (also Chinese language).

● in 1999, the department of calligraphy was established.

● in 2013, it began to recruit doctoral students in calligraphy.

● in 2019, "calligraphy" major was approved by the Ministry of Education of China for the record.

● in 2020, it will start to recruit calligraphy undergraduates from overseas.

● Since 1990, more than 10 students from Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan have been admitted.