Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University
The Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University is a provincial public university in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. The university is affiliated with, and sponsored by the Guangdong Provincial People's Government. The university primarily serves to prepare teachers for careers instructing within vocational schools.
History
Formerly known as Guangdong Institute of Nationalities, the university was approved by the State Education Commission in October 1957. In 1961, the university's campus relocated to Hainan. The campus was totally closed due to the Cultural Revolution. It was reopened on April 25, 1974. In 1978, it was relocated to its current Guangzhou campus.In 1998, the school was renamed to Guangdong Vocational Polytechnic Normal College. In 2002, the school merged with Guangdong School of Mechanical Engineering to form Guangdong Polytechnic Normal College. In 2005, the Guangdong Economic Management Institute and the Guangdong Finance and Trade Management Institute also merged into Guangdong Polytechnic Normal College. On December 4, 2018, the school was approved to change its name to Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University.
The school was approved as a master's degree authorization unit in 2006, and was approved as a Guangdong Province doctoral degree awarding unit in 2021. Currently, there are three first-level master's degree authorization points, one independent second-level master's degree authorization point, and two professional master's degree authorization points. It has 64 undergraduate majors, covering engineering, science, literature, management, education, economics, law, art, and other disciplines.