Lingnan Normal University (LNU), formerly known as Zhanjiang Normal University, is a provincial normal university of undergraduate education in Guangdong Province. Within its history of more than a century, LNU has trained a large amount of excellent teachers, educators and social practical talents. LNU recruits students from 26 provinces and currently has over 270,000 full-time students, 32 schools, 73 undergraduate specialties and 10 disciplines. LNU has a good team of over 1770 teaching staff, including 570 teachers with senior titles, 530 teachers with a Ph.D. degree and 770 teachers with both teaching and practical skills. LNU has also engaged a group of well-known domestic and foreign experts and scholars as visiting and part-time professors. LNU is active in international exchange and cooperation. It started recruiting overseas students since 1998 and has trained more than 800 long-term and short-term overseas students. It has established close partnership with over 80 overseas universities and educational institutions and nearly 30 primary and middle schools in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, Russia, Japan, New Zealand, Belarus, Ukraine, Indonesia, Thailand, Korea and Vietnam as well as Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan in China for academic exchange, professional collaboration, educational training, mutual teacher employment and cross-cultural student learning and exchange.

岭南师范学院（原湛江师范学院）是广东省省属百年普通本科师范院校，培养了大批优秀教师、教育工作者和社会应用人才。

学校面向26个省区招生，全日制在校本科生27000多人。学校设有32个二级学院，73个本科专业，涵盖10个学科门类。学校教职工1770余人，高级职称教师570多名，博士学位教师530多名，双师双能型教师770多名；聘有一批国内外知名专家学者为客座教授和兼职教授。

学校加强国际交流与合作。1998年开始招收外国留学生，已培养培训长短期留学生800多人。同美国、英国、德国、澳大利亚、俄罗斯、日本、新西兰、白俄罗斯、乌克兰、印尼、泰国、韩国、越南和港澳台地区的80多所境外高校和教育机构以及近30所中小学建立了紧密的合作关系，共同开展学术交流、专业合作、教育培训、教师互聘和学生跨文化学习交流活动。