Baicheng Normal College is seated in Baicheng City, commonly known as the City of Cranes, where the Kerqin Prairie and Songliao Plain meet in the west of Jilin Province. Baicheng Normal College, founded in 1958, directly under the jurisdiction of Jilin provincial government, is an institution of higher learning authorized by the Ministry of Education of China. Now it has developed into a regional, multi-disciplines undergraduate institution, taking teacher training as dominance, some other disciplines as subsidiary. The college occupies an area of 564,000 square meters, including 270,000 square meters for buildings. Currently, Baicheng Normal College has enrolled students from 25 provinces, cities and regions of our country, with over 8000 full-time undergraduates and students with professional training.

The college offers 31 undergraduate specialties in 20 departments covering eight main subjects such as: Literature, Science, History and Law, etc. Furthermore, Political Theory Education Department and Adult Educational Institute have been set up. There are also 14 research centers in various subjects , 76 professional laboratories of 5 laboratory centers and 37 Multi-media classrooms. ?The college issues the Academic Journal of Baicheng Normal College and Baicheng Normal College Newspaper, providing teachers and students with platforms to exchange their ideas on academics, culture and other hot topics.
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There are 454 professional teachers, including 34 professors, 158 associate professors, 1 doctoral adviser and 4 master advisers, 30 doctor-degree holders , 193 master-degree holders, 59 part-time professors invited from home and abroad，among which there are 2 teachers sharing the Special Allowance of State of Council, 1 provincial Prominent Contribution Expert, 1 provincial Chief-Lecturing professor, 1 provincial Young and Middle-aged Backbone teacher. The college has obtained 10 provincial Outstanding Teaching Rewards; 27 provincial Teaching and Researching Projects; 25 Jilin Province Higher Education Outstanding Courses and 77 key projects of national level or provincial level. The college also possesses 1 provincial Key Subject; 1 provincial Chief Experimental Teaching Center; 1 provincial key researching base for Humanities and Social Science for higher institutions; 2 national constructive bases and 3 provincial constructive bases for distinctive majors .

To improve the quality of education and better the teaching conditions, investments have been kept increasing over the last several years. The total value of the college’s fixed assets amounts to over 300 million RMB and the teaching instruments and equipments are worth about 4.9 million RMB. The volume of books in the library is up to 800,000, with over 1500 periodicals. We have introduced two giant data base management systems to equip two modern electronic reading rooms. Other facilities are as follows: the gymnasium, the student center, multi-function halls, training rooms for basic teaching skills, cable TV network, campus foreign-language teaching radio stations and campus computer networks, which provide effective safeguarding for education and teaching.? Furthermore, we got excellent grade in the Evaluation on the Educational Level of the Undergraduate course at June, 2008.

The college has been adhering to the concept of scientific development as the guidance, considering the eleventh five-year plan as the basis; the second development as the goal; the progressive education as the concept, with teaching as the center; the three projects and two constructions as the guarantee; “to be in great virtues, to distinguish right from wrong, to be erudite and to work persistently” as the motto of the college. Futhering reforms, carrying forward the hard-working and pioneering spirit and focusing on the development of connotation, the faculties and students are making great efforts together to build Baicheng Normal College into a harmonious, multi-disciplines regional college, with teacher-training as the dominant aim.