East China Normal University University, referred to as "East China Normal University", is located in Shanghai, directly under the Ministry of education of the people's Republic of China. It is listed as "class a", "985 Project" and "211 Project" in the construction of world-class universities. It has been selected into "2011 plan", "111 plan", national training plan, strong foundation plan, National College Students' innovative experiment plan, National College Students' innovation and entrepreneurship training plan and national college students' innovation and entrepreneurship training plan It is a member of the Yangtze River Delta university cooperation alliance, BRICs University Alliance, Asia Pacific University academy alliance, Sino Japanese University Alliance for people to people exchanges, one of the first batch of doctoral and master's degree awarding units in China, degree authorization independent auditing unit, and China Japan University Alliance for people to people exchanges The institutions of higher learning approved by the State Council for the establishment of graduate schools are comprehensive research-oriented national key universities jointly built by the Ministry of education, the Shanghai Municipal People's government and the State Oceanic Administration.Founded on October 16, 1951, East China Normal University is based on Daxia University (1924) and Guanghua University (1925) and transferred to some departments of St. John's University, Fudan University, Tongji University and Zhejiang University. In 1972, it was merged with Shanghai Normal University and Shanghai Institute of physical education and renamed Shanghai Normal University. In 1980, the name of East China Normal University was restored. From 1997 to 1998, Shanghai Preschool Teachers College, Shanghai Institute of education and Shanghai Second Institute of education were merged into the school.As of January 2020, the school has two campuses, Minhang and Zhongshan North Road, covering a total area of about 207 hectares. It has four departments, 30 full-time colleges, 4 academies, 8 entity research institutes, 2 management colleges, and 1 Training Center for middle school principals of the Ministry of education. There are 15454 full-time undergraduates, 3272 doctoral students and 15940 master's students in the school 1341 students.