安徽师范大学是安徽建校最早的高等学府。学校坐落在具有“徽风皖韵、千湖之城”美誉的国家级开放城市——芜湖，濒临浩瀚长江，傍依灵秀赭山，集江南自然之神秀、汇安徽人文之灵杰，是安徽省人民政府与教育部共建高校、国家“中西部高校基础能力建设工程”项目建设高校，是安徽省委省政府优先建设的省属重点综合性大学和安徽省特色高水平大学重点建设高校。

安徽师范大学1986年起开始接收自费来华留学生，1988开始接收我国政府奖学金来华留学生，是全国首批获准招收公费外国留学生的高校之一。2000年被国务院侨办确定为首批华文教育基地，是安徽省汉语国际推广中心所在地，首批安徽省国际交流合作基地、韩国忠清南道外国语教育院汉语教师培训基地，中国语言资源开发应用中心研修院授权对外汉语教师培训、对外汉语教师资格考试承办单位，澳大利亚查尔斯达尔文大学孔子学院和乌克兰扎波罗热大学孔子课堂承办单位。 2011年获批全省首家“HSK”外国人汉语水平考试网络考点资格。

Anhui Normal University (AHNU) is the earliest institution of higher education in Anhui province. The university is located in Wuhu, a national city with the reputation of "Gifted with Anhui style and charm, watered by many lakes", which adjoins the Yangtze River and the beautiful Zheshan Mountain. It is a key provincial comprehensive university and a high level university with Anhui characteristics. It is also a priority university of the national “Central and Western Universities Basic Capacity Building Project” and a key university built by Anhui Provincial Committee and Provincial Government.

Anhui Normal University began to receive self-funded foreign students in 1986 and Chinese government scholarships foreign students in 1988. It is one of the first universities in China to be allowed to recruit scholarship foreign students at public expense. In 2000, it was identified as the first of Chinese Education Bases by the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council, and the Anhui Chinese International Promotion Center, the first of Anhui International Exchange and Cooperation Bases, the Chinese teacher training base of Chungnam Institute of Foreign Language Education in Korea, and the organizer of Chinese teacher training and qualification examination for Chinese teachers as a foreign language authorized by the Research Institute of China language resources development and Application Center, Confucius Institute of Charles Darwin University in Australia and Confucius Classroom of zaporoze University in Ukraine. In 2011, it was approved as the HSK test center for foreigners in Anhui province.