Jiangsu Normal University (simplified Chinese: 江苏师范大学; traditional Chinese: 江蘇師範大學; pinyin: Jiāngsū Shīfàn Dàxué) is a provincial key university located in Xuzhou, Jiangsu province, China.

It was jointly constructed by the Chinese Ministry of Education and the Government of Jiangsu Province.

In early 1960s, due to Zhou Enlai's suggestion that there should be a college in vast north Jiangsu, it avoided the fate of disappearing in the layout of higher education system.

[2] During the Culture Revolution, once it changed its name to Huaihai College (淮海大学) by Red Guard,[3] and stopped recruiting students for six years.

[4] In 1979, it began to recruit postgraduates, and it became one of the first batch of universities than could confer master's degree in China in 1981.