BNU

Sources

• 2026 BNU Undergraduate Admission Brochure for International Students https://admission-is.bnu.edu.cn/english/admissionprogram/bachelordegreeprogram/admissionbrochure/index.html

  The official admission page identifies Beijing Normal University, gives the Beijing address, and states that BNU is directly administered by the Ministry of Education of China.

  The Duration and Tuition Fee section states that the full-time bachelor's degree program lasts four years.

• Beijing Normal University undergraduate program list 2026 https://jwb.bnu.edu.cn/zyykc/zysz/29985604fc2343efa20a2b7b8ab0a5a5.htm

  BNU Academic Affairs publishes the 2026 undergraduate major list and states that BNU has 77 undergraduate majors across 11 disciplinary categories.

  The source shows that the public undergraduate structure remains organized around named majors, not an open curriculum.

• Notice on major streaming for broad-admission colleges https://jwb.bnu.edu.cn/pygc/xygl/jxap/b5438cd049174ee48566e3097e17adf9.htm

  The 2026 official notice starts major streaming for broad-admission colleges and departments and attaches the rules, implementation plan, student application form and streaming list forms.

  This supports post-entry choice of the main major as a regular academic process, not merely transfer or reapplication.

• Rules on major streaming for broad-admission colleges https://jwb.bnu.edu.cn/docs/2026-05/2a9e34e1aaf944e9a6c04b997e79a344.docx

  The document states that broad-admission units run an integrated early stage, after which students may be streamed into majors inside the unit.

  The rules state that streaming normally happens once during the four-year undergraduate period, no later than the start of the fifth semester, and that students fill in a preference form.

  This is the decisive evidence for programChoice 2. Minor and dual bachelor's evidence is not used for programChoice 3 because the collected sources do not prove that these components sit inside ordinary credit volume rather than add-on study.

• Undergraduate training plan https://jwb.bnu.edu.cn/zyykc/pyfa/bkspyfa/7fe8c2702419432aa19611fb89cba589.htm

  BNU describes undergraduate curricula as an integrated general education and professional education system, generally 130 to 150 credits.

  The page says curriculum structure and course settings are designed to give students possibilities for independent choice of majors and courses, and links a compilation of rules for free elective credit recognition.

  Together with the general education catalog, this supports courseChoice 3, while the lack of a normal external course enrollment mechanism keeps courseChoice below 4.

• General education course introduction https://jwb.bnu.edu.cn/zyykc/tsjy/eac1572385244762a553d22016667c21.htm

  BNU structures general education into six modules and states that undergraduate teaching units and research institutes jointly build more than 800 general education courses.

  Students must earn credits in each module, confirming a broad university-wide course pool while also showing that part of the choice is structured by distribution requirements.

• School-introduced online open courses https://jwb.bnu.edu.cn/zyykc/szkc/gztz/7c2b4c45a1054a9c9db21531debeb550.htm

  The 2026 Academic Affairs notice describes 30 online open courses introduced by the university for undergraduate students and says grades are entered into the academic administration system.

  This strengthens evidence for internal course choice, but it is not treated as courseChoice 4 because the source does not describe ordinary external cross-registration with partner university credit transfer.

• Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2026 https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/beijing-normal-university

  This source is used only for the THE World University Rankings 2026 position: 134.

  Ranking evidence does not affect matrix coordinates.

• Introduction to Beijing Normal University https://www.bnu.edu.cn/xxgk/xxjj/index.htm

  The official page states that data are current as of March 2026: 9,491 full-time undergraduate students at the Beijing campus and 7,446 at the Zhuhai campus, for a total of 16,937.