四川师范大学是四川省属重点大学、国家首批“中西部高校基础能力建设工程”实施高校及全国深化创新创业教育改革示范校，是四川省举办本科师范教育最早、师范类院校中办学历史最为悠久的大学。学校位于四川省省会——成都市，现有狮子山校区、成龙校区两个校区。

办学历史悠久。学校创建于1946年，其诞生与东北大学有直接的历史渊源。抗战初期，东北大学内迁到四川省三台县办学。抗战胜利后，东北大学迁回沈阳，留川师生在原校址上创建了私立川北农工学院。1949年，学校吸纳西山书院，更名为私立川北大学。1950年，学校合并私立川北文学院，组成公立川北大学，迁址四川省南充市，改称川北大学。1952年，以川北大学为主体，合并川东教育学院（原中国乡村建设学院）、四川大学和华西大学的部分专业，组建四川师范学院。1953年，原重庆师范学院部分系科师生进入四川师范学院。1956年，四川师范学院本科专业迁到成都狮子山。1964年，原成都大学（现西南财经大学）数理化三系并入我校。1985年，经国家教育委员会批准，四川师范学院更名为四川师范大学。1999年，原煤炭部成都煤炭干部管理学院整体并入我校。

学科门类齐全。学校是全国首批硕士授权单位，第十批博士授权单位，举办有文学、理学、工学、哲学、经济学、管理学、法学、历史学、教育学、艺术学、农学等十一个学科门类。建设有2个博士后流动站、7个博士学位授权一级学科（中国语言文学、教育学、数学、心理学、中国史、物理学、化学）、26个硕士学位授权一级学科、14个硕士专业学位授权类别、79个本科专业，其中省级重点学科建设项目4个、一级学科省级重点学科2个、二级学科省级重点学科17个；建设有教育部人文社科重点研究基地1个、教育部重点实验室1个、四川省重点实验室1个、四川省“2011”协同创新中心3个，四川省哲学社会科学重点研究基地4个，四川省高校重点实验室、四川省国别研究中心、四川省工程实验室10个，建有四川省省级大学科技园。

师资力量雄厚。建校以来，学校先后涌现出了以著名墨学家伍非百、我国社会学和民俗学的创始人之一李安宅、我国教育心理学的创始人之一刘绍禹、楚辞学专家汤炳正、文献学专家屈守元、训诂学专家刘君惠、凝聚态物理学专家赵敏光、拓扑学专家刘旺金、非线性分析专家丁协平为代表的一批知名专家。

育人成效显著。学校建有国家级大学生文化素质教育基地、省级大学生创新创业示范俱乐部及省级大学科技园，是国家级大学生创新创业训练计划实施高校，创办有1所具有33年历史的“校中校”——四川师范大学美育学校。学校建有“质量工程”国家级项目168项、省级项目710项，其中，国家级卓越教师培养计划项目3项，入选国家级一流本科专业建设点23个、省级一流本科专业建设点17个，国家级人才培养模式创新实验区、国家级实验教学示范中心、国家级教学团队、国家级大学生校外实践教育基地、国家级教育专业学位研究生联合培养示范基地、国家级人文社科普及基地各1个，国家级精品课程、双语教学示范课程、精品在线开放课程、精品资源共享课程、一流课程20门，“十一五”“十二五”“十三五”国家级规划教材20部，学生承担国家级大学生创新创业训练项目559项，学校获近三届国家级教学成果二等奖12项、四川省教学成果奖96项（其中一等奖31项），全国教育专业学位教学成果二等奖2项，全国教育专业学位优秀硕士论文6篇，全国教育专业学位研究生教学技能大赛近三年获得奖项49 项（其中一等奖及以上10项）。办学74年来，培养了以中国工程院院士李言荣、中国科学院院士唐勇、中国工程院院士罗先刚、加拿大皇家科学院院士郭鸿为代表的30余万名各类毕业生，他们在自己的岗位上为国家建设做出了应有贡献。

科研成果丰硕。“十三五”期间，学校科学研究工作取得了显著成效与长足进步，科研整体水平得到了明显提升。获批国家级项目共计279项，其中国家人文社科类项目共计立项155项，国家自科基金项目124项；获批省部级项目341项。获批省部级以上科学成果奖86项，其中教育部高等学校科学研究优秀成果奖获批2项；四川省哲学社会科学优秀成果奖75项；四川省科技进步奖15项。获授发明专利与软件著作权登记256项，学校综合科研经费共计7.8亿元，保持了科研经费投入持续增长。

对外交流广泛。学校是四川省高校对外交流中心之一和国家教育部批准的具有招收华侨、港澳地区及台湾省学生资格和接收澳门地区保送生的高等院校，是四川省高等教育学会中外人文交流工作专业委员会理事长单位，已与26个国家和地区的110所院校和教育科研机构建立了广泛的学术交流和人才培养关系，培养各类层次的境外留学生，并开展各类层次、不同国别的中外联合培养项目；在韩国延世大学、巴基斯坦卡拉奇大学合作建立了2所孔子学院，与巴基斯坦佩德罗中学共建孔子学堂，是“中文联盟”成员；建有全球治理与区域国别研究院，下设东南亚研究中心、日本研究中心、韩国研究中心、南亚研究中心、泰国研究中心、巴基斯坦研究中心等；与韩国世宗学堂总部合办“成都世宗学堂”。学校在办2个中外合作办学项目，与意大利欧洲设计学院合办“产品设计专业本科教育项目”，与莫斯科国立师范大学合办“绘画专业本科教学项目”。

社会服务有力。学校是“国务院民族团结先进集体”，长期发挥人才和科技优势，支持地方经济社会尤其是教育事业发展，设有四川省高校师资培训中心、四川省高校干部培训中心、教育部全国高校教师网络培训四川省分中心、四川省教师资格认定指导中心、四川省教育厅四川师范大学基础教育课程研究中心、四川省教师继续教育四川师范大学培训中心、四川煤矿安全技术培训中心、全国首家中国青年志愿者扶贫接力计划研究生支教团培训基地等省级培训及研究机构。长期定点帮扶甘孜州理塘县、凉山州普格县，对口支援西昌民族幼专，结对帮扶阿坝师范学院、四川文理学院。

2017年，学校牵头成立C5教育精准扶贫联盟；2020年，学校成立“四川乡村振兴学院”（总部），并先后在仪陇县、北川羌族自治县、苍溪县、达川区、巴中市、恩阳区、普格县、理塘县、凉山州、绵竹市、遂宁市、岳池县、南部县等地区挂牌成立四川乡村振兴学院（分院），助力精准脱贫，振兴乡村发展。

四川师范大学扎根巴蜀大地办大学，服务治蜀兴川新战略。新时代，全体师大人坚定以习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想为指导，致力于把学校发展成为人民教育家诞生的摇篮、优秀校长成长的基地、优秀教育教学成果转化的平台、国家和四川省教育的高端智库，认真履行四川师大引领区域教师教育，促进地方经济社会发展，服务国家重大需求，传承创新中华文明的责任和使命，不断提高服务地方经济社会发展和基础教育的能力。目前，全校师生员工团结和谐，朝气蓬勃，为把学校建设成为特色鲜明的高水平综合性师范大学而努力奋斗。

Sichuan Normal University (SICNU), as a provincial key university, is among the first to carry out the national “Basic Capacity Building Project in Colleges & Universities in Mid-western China”. It’s the first normal university to undertake the basic undergraduate normal education in Sichuan Province.

The establishment of SICNU (founded in 1946 in Shenyang, Liaoning Province in the northeast of China) was directly connected with Northeastern University (NEU), which moved to Santai County of Sichuan Province in the earlier days in the Anti-Japanese War. After the victory of the war, NEU moved back to Shenyang, but some of the faculties and students who chose to stay in Sichuan jointly established the Northern Sichuan Agricultural &Engineering College (NSAEC) at the former site of NEU. In 1949, with the incorporation of Xishan Academy, NSAEC was renamed as Northern Sichuan University (NSU), and then moved to Nanchong City of Sichuan Province after merging with Chinese Language& Literature College of Northern Sichuan in 1950. Two years later, with NSU as the main body and the emerging of Eastern Sichuan Education College (former Rural Construction College) and some specialties from Sichuan University (SU) and West China University, Sichuan Teachers College (STC) came into existence. STC moved to the current site in 1956 and was renamed as Sichuan Normal University (SICNU) in 1985, approved by the former State Education Commission of the PRC.

As one of the first national master authorization units and among the 10th batch of doctor authorization units, SICNU has developed 11 discipline fields including Literature, Sciences, Engineering, Philosophy, Economics, Management, Law, History, Education, Art and Agriculture, with 2 centers for post-doctoral studies, 3 doctoral degreeauthorizationfirst-level disciplines, 26 doctoral degree authorized locations, 24 master’s degreeauthorizationfirst-level disciplines, 12 master’s professional degree authorization categories and 82 undergraduate programs. Up to now, SICNU has been developing into a comprehensive university with over 40,000undergraduates and  3,000 faculty members &research staffs in various fields.

Since the university was founded, many renowned scholars, such as the Mohist Scholar Wu Feibai, Li Anzhai (one of the founders of sociology and folklore in China), Liu Shaoyu (one of the founders of educational psychology in China), condensed state  physicist Zhao Minguang, topology expert Liu Wangjin and nonlinear analysis expert Ding Xieping gathered here. SICNU has been dedicated into cultivating talents. More than 300,000 graduated from SICNU, with Li Yanrong (academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering) and Tang Yong (academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences) as the representatives. Numerous high-level teachers who have contributed greatly to the basic education of our province also graduated from our university.

SICNU is one of the university foreign exchange centers in Sichuan Province. Approved by the Ministry of Education, SICNU has gained the qualifications to recruit students from overseas Chinese, Hong Kong and Macao and Taiwan Province, and to accept recommended students from Macao. SICNU has established extensive academic exchanges and personnel training relationships with 110 colleges, universities and educational research institutions in 25 countries and regions to train overseas students of all levels. SICNU has carried out joint training programs at various levels and in different countries. SICNU has worked with Yonsei University in Republic of Korea and Karachi University in Pakistan to establish two Confucius Institutes. SICNU has founded a Confucius Classroom with Cadet College Petaro in Pakistan. SICNU has also established a Japan Research Center, a Korean Research Center, a Sino-Russian Cultural Exchange Center, and a Sino-French Cultural Exchange Center and a co-organized Chengdu Sejong Class with Yonsei University.

Sichuan Normal University boasts its uniqueness among the provincial universities in Sichuan Province. In 2013, with the presence of Premier Li Keqiang, SICNU signed an agreement with Karachi University for the establishment of a Confucius Institute. Then the Confucius Institute at Yonsei University (2013) and the Confucius Classroom at Cadet College Petaro in Pakistan (2015) were successively established.

Supported by the three Confucius Institutes (classrooms), Sichuan Normal University is committed to spread Chinese culture and strengthen Humanistic exchanges with countries and regions cross the globe, to tell Chinese stories and raise Chinese voices, and thereby to contribute the promotion of "one belt and one road" initiative and the Community of shared future for all mankind.

Taking a strong foothold in Sichuan province, SICNU is in line with the new strategy of Sichuan Provincial People’s Government to seek sound governance and prosperity. In this new era, with the guidance of President Xi’s socialism with Chinese characteristics, all the SICNU faculties and students have carefully studied and performed the spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the 11th CPC Provincial Committee, dedicating themselves to the development of SICNU as the cradle of educators, the growth base for outstanding principals, the platform for the transformation of excellent educational and teaching achievements, as well as the high-end think tank of the national and provincial education. SICNU is also committed to playing the leading role of the regional teachers’ training and education so as to promote the local economic & social development, satisfy the significant national demand, shoulder the responsibility and mission of inheriting and innovating Chinese civilization, and to continuously improve the ability to serve local economic & social development and basic education. To date, all the SICNU faculties and students, united as one and harmonious with other, are full of vigor and vitality, are  wholeheartedly striving to build it into a university with “the domestic first-class teacher training and education base and a distinctive teaching and research features.”