As one of the first institutions to offer postgraduate degree programmes in China, CCNU boasts a strong team of over 3,600 faculty and staff members who devote themselves to making a difference through learning, problem solving, innovation and community building. Its established advanced educational system ranges from undergraduate to postgraduate programmes, doctoral to postdoctoral programmes and from full-time to part-time programmes. Currently, it accommodates over 18,700 undergraduate students, and 12,900 postgraduate students, among whom around 1000 are from overseas.

CCNU provides comprehensive, state-of-the-art research facilities for 28 faculty and schools as well as 19 postdoctoral research stations. With its strength in research, such disciplines as Politics, Chinese Language and Culture and Pedagogy have been incorporated into the National Construction Plan of the First-Class Discipline Initiative. In possession of 67 scientific research institutions and laboratories, CCNU has a number of research units for humanities and social sciences in addition to a National Engineering Laboratory and Research Unit for international cooperation.

CCNU has established close ties with an array of leading universities and research institutions both at home and abroad. It is actively engaged in exchange programmes and extensive academic cooperation with more than 200 institutions and foreign experts and teachers are regularly invited to teach at the university. The cooperation has been conducive to the advancement of science and technology, culture and education exchanges between China and other nations.

Adhering to the motto of “seeking truth and innovation, establishing morality and cultivating talents”, CCNU upholds the tradition of "erudition, learned and universal love". Focusing on the pursuit of education and research at the highest level of excellence, the University is striving to become a world-class university with the focus on teacher education.