page_title: Beijing Normal University
section_title: Campus
hierarchical_section_title: Beijing Normal University / Campus
caption_attribution_description: English: dorm
context_page_description: Beijing Normal University, colloquially known as Beishida, is a public research university located in Beijing, China, with a strong emphasis on basic disciplines of the humanities and sciences. It is one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in China, and was recognized by the Chinese Ministry of Education as a Class A Double First Class University.
  The name "normal school" refers to an institution that aimed to train schoolteachers in the early 20th century. This terminology is preserved in the names of such institutions in China even after these schools gained university status and expanded to offer courses beyond education-related fields. This term reflects BNU's heritage as a former unit of the Faculty of Education at the Imperial University of Peking.
context_section_description: The main campus is in Haidian District, with other Beijing campuses in Changping District and Xicheng District as well as a campus in Zhuhai, Guangdong.
  The original campus was near Hepingmen and Liulichang in the center of Beijing during the Republic of China period, and after Fu Jen University merged into BNU, the Fu Jen's campus near Shichahai and Prince Kung's Mansion became the Northern Campus of BNU.
  Beijing Normal University's current campus was built in 1954. It is located in central northwest Beijing in Haidian district, between the second and third ring roads, and is the closest of all Haidian universities to Tiananmen Square, site of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests during which several BNU students were involved as student leaders.
  BNU's campus hosted the U.S. Olympic Team during the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
  In 2002, a sister campus was established collaboratively by the Zhuhai municipal government and Beijing Normal University in the coastal city of Zhuhai, Guangdong.
caption: Undergraduate dormitories
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