Shanxi Normal University

It was founded as a teacher training school in 1958; then, promoted and renamed to Shanxi Normal University in 1984.

Shanxi Normal University has 21205 undergraduate and 4128 graduate students on three campuses.

After the regulation of the higher education system in 1962, it became the only higher-level teacher training school in the province.

In 2020, the university was criticized in Chinese media for refusing to provide a braille entrance exam for a prospective blind student.

[2] The university has a herbarium with 20,000 specimens founded in 1963 and was recognized in the Global Registry of Scientific Collections.