Hunan Normal University (Chinese: 湖南师范大学), founded in 1938, is a public university in Changsha, Hunan Province. The university is one of the 211 Project universities, one of the country's 100 national key universities (ranked 57th in 2023) that enjoy priority in obtaining national funds. It is now also a Chinese state Double First Class University Plan university, a major government initiative to comprehensively develop a group of elite universities into "world-first-class universities" by 2050. It is particularly reputable for its concentration on teachers' education and training, foreign language studies, Chinese literature and history.