云南師范大學是一所歷史悠久、傳統優良的省屬重點師范大學，是云南省人民政府和教育部共建高校、國家中西部基礎能力提升工程重點建設的100所高校之一。
1937年抗戰爆發后，北京大學、清華大學、南開大學遷至昆明合組國立西南聯合大學，下設文學院、理學院、工學院、法商學院、師范學院。抗戰勝利后，1946年組成聯大的三校復員北返，師范學院整建制留在昆明獨立辦學，定名國立昆明師范學院，1950年改名昆明師范學院，1984年更名為云南師范大學。建校70余年來，已為國家培養各級各類人才20余萬人，被譽為“紅土高原上的教師搖籃”。

學校占地面積3330畝，下設24個學院，2個獨立學院，40余個科研機構。學校有全日制博士、碩士研究生和本科生33000余人，成人繼續教育學生18000余人；圖書資料320余萬冊，是中國高等教育文獻保障系統云南文獻信息服務中心建設單位，建有“萬兆主干”的新一代“數字校園”。《云南師范大學學報?哲社版》進入全國高校文科學報30強之列，為CSSCI來源期刊、中文核心期刊、中國人文社會科學核心期刊；《云南師范大學學報?自然科學版》為中國科技核心期刊；在全國大學學報中首創《云南師范大學學報?對外漢語教學與研究版》，綜合影響因子在全國同類期刊中排名30位，為“全國高校優秀社科期刊”。

學校有文、史、哲、法、教、管、理、工、經濟、藝術10大學科門類，形成多學科協調發展的學科與專業格局，在2012年教育部第三輪學科評估中有22個學科排名全國高校前20位，3個學科排名前10位。現有90個本科專業，2個博士后流動站，1個一級學科博士點，7個二級學科博士點，26個一級學科碩士點，130個二級學科碩士點，有教育碩士、工商管理碩士（MBA）等13種專業碩士學位授權點，是全國首批招收和培養漢語國際教育碩士專業學位研究生的24所試點高校之一。

學校通過在教師教育、人才培養模式、課程體系、學分制、教學內容、教學方法等方面的改革和創新，完成了由傳統的師范教育向現代教師教育、由傳統師范院校向以教師教育為特色的教學研究型大學的轉型。學校共獲國家級教學成果獎12項，實現國家教學成果一等獎的突破，獲得一等獎1項、二等獎2項；擁有國家級教學團隊、國家級人才培養模式創新實驗區、國家教育體制改革試點項目、國家級特色專業、國家級專業綜合改革試點、國家級精品課程、國家級實驗教學示范中心、國家級雙語教學示范課程、國家級教學名師、教育部創新團隊、教師隊伍建設示范項目等，共有76項國家“質量工程”建設項目；是國家級大學生創新創業訓練計劃高校，先后獲得“全國普通高等學校優秀教務處”“全國高等學校招生工作先進集體”“全國普通高校成人高等教育先進單位”“全國畢業生就業典型經驗高校”等榮譽，在教育部本科教學工作水平評估中獲得優秀。

學校建有國家太陽能質檢中心、中國??老撾可再生能源聯合實驗室2個國家級平臺，教育部重點實驗室、教育部工程研究中心、云南省重點實驗室、云南省工程中心、云南省哲學社會科學研究基地等省部級科研平臺及基地33個，教育部創新團隊、云南省科技創新團隊、云南省哲學社會科學創新團隊等省部級創新團隊13個。有中國西南地緣環境與邊疆發展協同創新中心、西南地區可再生能源研究與開發協同創新中心2個省級協同創新中心，有云南教育決策咨詢智庫、中國西南周邊地緣環境與“一帶一路”建設研究智庫2個云南高校新型智庫。2011-，學校共獲各級各類科研項目1779項，科研經費5.57億元；新增國家自然科學基金159項，國家社會科學基金65項，含國家科技支撐計劃、國家科技惠民計劃、國家社會科學基金重大招標項目、國家社會科學基金特別委托項目等國家級重大（點）項目15項；教師共出版著作428部，其中A類出版社104部；共發表論文8774篇，其中三大檢索收錄論文834篇，CSSCI論文733篇；共獲122項科研成果獎，其中全國第六屆高校科學研究優秀成果獎２項、云南省科學技術獎９項、云南省哲學社會科學研究成果獎99項；共獲授權專利74項，軟件著作權登記116項，3項國家標準獲得國家標準委立項。

學校現有教職工2373人，其中有國家突出貢獻專家和國務院特殊津貼獲得者、中國科學院“*”、國家“百千萬人才工程”、國家級教學名師、教育部高校青年教師獎、教育部“新世紀優秀人才培養計劃”入選者、中科院“西部之光”項目培養計劃人才、全國勞動模范和先進工作者、全國模范教師、全國優秀教師、全國馬克思主義理論研究與建設工程主要專家等一批專家學者。諾貝爾獎獲得者楊振寧，中科院院士楊樂、郭柏靈、戴汝為、歐陽自遠，英國皇家工程院院士、劍橋大學教授阿馬拉通加，2010年諾貝爾經濟學獎得主、英國社會科學院院士皮薩里德斯，美國《紐約時報》前總編、普利策獎評審委員會前任主席西默?托平，世界著名未來學家約翰?奈斯比特博士，著名經濟學家吳敬璉等40余個國家和地區的近100位知名專家被聘為學校名譽教授、客座教授或兼職教授。

學校是一所開放的、有著國際化視野的現代大學，先后被教育部和國家漢辦確定為支持周邊國家漢語教學的10所重點大學之一、國務院臺辦“國立西南聯大舊址”海峽兩岸交流基地、國務院僑辦華文教育基地、國家漢語國際推廣師資培訓基地、中國對東南亞國家進行漢語師資培訓的基地、國家首批赴海外承辦孔子學院的大學、享受中國政府獎學金和孔子學院獎學金留學生接收院校、全國首批來華留學示范基地、教育部出國留學培訓與研究中心、國家HSK考試和漢語作為第二外語教學能力資格考點和具有對港澳臺招生權的高校。學校在國外建立了1所孔子學院、3個孔子課堂、6個中國語言文化中心，與英國、美國、加拿大、澳大利亞、新西蘭以及港澳臺等60多個國家和地區的160余所國外大學和科研機構進行合作交流，招收81個國家的留學生16000余人次。目前有各類留學生1725人，是云南省在校留學生人數最多的高校。

　
About Yunnan Normal University

As the key normal university of Yunnan Province and with a long history and splendid tradition, Yunnan Normal University (henceforth YNNU) is a higher institution co-funded by the Ministry of Education (MOE) and Yunnan Provincial Government and one of the 100 universities funded by the National Key Project for the Quality Enhancement of the Higher Institutions in Central and West China..

When the Anti-Japanese War broke out in 1937, Peking University, Tsinghua University and Nankai University moved to Kunming and merged into the National Southwest Associated University, which consisted of School of Arts, School of Science, School of Engineering, School of Business and Law, and Teachers School. After the war ended, the three component universities moved back to their original campuses in the north, whereas the Teachers School, now renamed National Kunming Normal College, remained in Kunming as an independent institution. It adopted the name of Kunming Normal College in 1950 and was renamed Yunnan Normal University in 1984. Up to now, it has produced d more than 200,000 graduates of different kinds and is rightfully known as the Cradle of Qualified Teachers on the Lateritic Plateau.

Covering a total area of 3,330 mu (about 555 acres), YNNU consists of 24 schools, two independent schools, and over 40 research institutes. Currently it has over 33,000 full-time students pursuing different degrees, from bachelor to PhD, and more than 18,000 students participating in the program of adult continuing education. Equipped with over 3.2 million books, the library of YNNU is a provincial data resources center of China Academic Library and Information System (CALIS), and the campus is covered by a new digitalized service system. The Journal of Yunnan Normal University (Social Science Edition), included in the highly selective CSSCI (Chinese Social Sciences Citation Index) list, ranks among the top 30 of its kind, while the Natural Science Edition is a nationally acclaimed core journal. In addition, the Teaching and Research on Chinese as a Foreign Language Edition, a pioneer in this field, ranks among the top 30 journals of its kind in China in terms of impact factor.

YNNU offers 10 disciplines: literature, history, philosophy, law, education, management, science, engineering, economics, and arts, which are well coordinated in their development. In an assessment conducted in 2012 by the Ministry of Education, 22 of YNNU’s sub-disciplines are ranked among the top 20 in the whole country while 3 of them are among the top 10. YNNU offers 90 bachelor’s programs, 2 postdoctoral research programs, 1 doctoral program in a first-class discipline, 7 doctoral programs in second-class disciplines, 26 master’s programs in first-class disciplines, 130 master’s programs in second-class disciplines, and 13 professional master’s programs, such as MBA and M.Ed. It is one of the first 24 universities in China that offer the Master’s Program for Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages.

Through reforms and innovations in teacher education, talent development, teaching content and methodology, curriculum and credit system, YNNU has transformed itself from a traditional teacher-training university to a teaching-research university, with teacher education as its typical trait. It has won 12 state-level teaching awards, one first prize and two second prizes in 2014. It has a number of state-level teaching teams, innovative training programs, special majors, brilliant teachers, excellent courses and experimental teaching bases that rank among the best in China in their respective fields. It has won several national excellent teaching awards. It is carrying out state-funded projects in such areas as reforms in education system, bilingual teaching and teaching innovation and faculty development. It has 76 state-level Quality Projects under construction. It is one of the national college-student innovation training bases. YNNU’s Teaching Affairs Department, the Enrollment & Employment Department and the Adult Education Department have won state-level honors for their respective contribution. Its undergraduate teaching is rated “Excellence” in the teaching-quality assessment conducted by the Ministry of Education.

The university has built 2 state-level research platforms, the National Solar-heater Quality Testing Center, the Sino-Laos Joint Lab for Recyclable Energy Resources, 33 research bases or platforms, including the Ministry of Education’s Key Lab, Engineering Research Center, Key Lab of Yunnan Province, Yunnan Engineering Center, and Philosophy and Social Science Research Base, etc., and 13 innovation teams at the provincial and ministerial level, including Educational Innovation Team, Science and Technological Innovation Team of Yunnan Province, etc. The university also set up two provincial Collaborative Innovation Centers, the Collaborative Innovation Center for Geopolitical Environment of Southwest China and Borderland Development, and the Collaborative Innovation Center for Research and Development of Recyclable Energy Resources in Southwest China. In addition, it is equipped with two new think tanks, one for educational policy-making of Yunnan and the other for researches on geopolitical environment of Southwest China and implementation of “One Belt, One Road” program. In the past three years, YNNU has undertaken 1, 779 different research projects, its research funds totaling over 557 million Yuan, among which 159 projects are newly approved and initiated from National Natural Science Foundation, 65 funded by National Social Science Foundation, and 15 National Prestigious Key Projects, such as the National Sci-tech Support Plan, Technological Benefiting Project of National Ministry of Science and Technology, a Major Bidding Project of National Social Science Foundation and a Special Commission Project of the National Social Science Foundation of China. The faculty has published 428 academic books, 104 of them by publishers of the top class. And 834 out of the 8774 published journal papers have been listed by SCI, EI, and ISTP, and 733 by CSSCI. The university has won 122 awards for academic achievements, including 2 National Universities’ Academic Research Awards, 99 Yunnan Philosophy and Social Science Research Awards, and 9 Yunnan Science and Technology Awards. YNNU also has had 74 patents authorized, 116 software copyright registered, and three National Standard Projects approved and initiated by the Standardization Administration of the People's Republic of China (SAC).

Currently YNNU has a staff of 2373, many of whom are experts with honors awarded by the Central Government, specialists winning the State Council Special Allowance, members from the “100 Talents Program” of Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS) or the state-level “Ten Million Talents Project”, winners of the state-level “Outstanding Teacher” and “Teachers as Role Models of the Country”, and of “Young Faculty Award” granted by the Ministry of Education, candidates for the “New-century Talents Development Program” by the Ministry of Education, and for “West Light” talents development project by CAS, and important experts of the national research project of Marxist Theory. Some teachers have also won the national awards of “Model Workers and Advanced Workers”. In addition, YNNU has invited about 100 well-known experts from 40 countries and regions as its Honorary Professors, Guest Professors or Adjunct Professors, including Professor Chen-Ning Franklin Yang, Nobel Prize winner in physics in 1957, Professor Yang Le, Professor Guo Bailing, Professor Dai Ruwei, and Professor Ouyang Ziyuan, CAS academicians, Professor Gehan Amaratunga from Cambridge University, academician of the Royal Academy of Engineering, U.K., Professor Christopher A. Pissarides, fellow of British Academy and winner of Nobel Prize in economics sciences in 2010, Professor Seymour Topping, former Administrator of the Pulitzer Prize, and former managing editor of the New York Times, the world-famous futurologist Dr. John Naisbitt, and Wu Jinlian, renowned economist.

Boasting of international visions and modern ideas, YNNU has been designated by the Ministry of Education and the Hanban as one of the ten key universities supporting Chinese teaching in neighboring countries. It is the Cross-Strait Exchange Center at the site of Southwest Associated University sponsored by the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, Chinese Language and Culture Education Base by Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council (OCAOSC), Teacher Training Base for the International Promotion of Chinese Language, and the TCFL Teacher Training Base for Southeast Asian Countries by the Hanban, one of the first Chinese universities approved by the Chinese government to establish Confucius Institute abroad and provide scholarship awarded by the Chinese Government and Confucius Institute Headquarters to overseas students, one of the first National Demonstration Bases for International Education, and Education Training and Research Center for Overseas Studies by the MOE, the HSK and CFL Test Centers and authorized to enroll students from Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan area. Up till now, it has set up one Confucius Institute, three Confucius Classrooms, and six Chinese Culture Centers abroad. YNNU has established collaborative ties with over 160 overseas universities and research institutes from more than 60 countries, such as Great Britain, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and other regions of China, including Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. It has enrolled more than 16,000 overseas students from 81 countries in the past, and currently 1,725 international students are studying here, the greatest number in Yunnan universities.

YNNU has been granted awards by the State Council, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (MOHRSS), the Ministry of Education, and Yunnan Province for its contributions to the national unity and progress, for its achievements in education, well-organized running of the university in accordance with the law, experienced guidance for graduates in job-hunting, training of teachers from elementary and middle schools, conservation-oriented operation, excellent campus culture and landscaping, and advanced grass-roots Party organizations. Students have also made remarkable achievements in the Mathematical Contest in Modelling, the “Challenge Cup” Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Works Competition for University Students, the Speech Contest for University Students, the National English Competition for College Students, and the National Teaching Skill Competition for Normal University Students. And some students and classes and associations have won awards for their excellent performance, scientific and technological innovations and praiseworthy actions for helping those in need. YNNU’s students have won medals in the Olympic Games and the Paralympic Games held in Beijing, Athens and London.

In the new stage of development, YNNU will make unremitting efforts to become a high-quality university with its unique features by implementing the strategy of “integrating strengths from all sides while sticking to unique local features” and