Huanggang Normal University (HNU) is a regular, full-time local normal university directly under the Educational Administration of Hubei Province.
The predecessor of HNU was Huangzhou Normal School founded in 1905.

HNU is located in the historic and cultural city on the bank of the Yangtze River, Huangzhou (one of Huanggang's two direct administrative divisions). Huanggang district possesses profound cultural foundation and glorious revolutionary tradition and is abundant in giants from ancient times to the present. HNU is the cradle of teachers in the East of Hubei Province.

HNU consists of three campuses: Zhuming Mountain, Yinpan Mountain and South Lake, covering over 1252.68 mu with school house of 329000 square meter and the fixed capital of 342 million. The number of fulltime students amounts to 12407 and that of students in adult education college to 1567. There are 585 teachers on the payroll including 42 professors, 123 associate professors, 115 teachers with doctor's or master's degree and 18 foreign teachers. HNU sets up a large group of foundational labs ,professional labs , Visual-audio labs and multimedia classrooms. Its library has a collection of 741,700 books, 1,605 periodicals in Chinese and foreign languages and nearly 11,000 periodicals of electronic editions, which are sufficient for the students' study and the teachers' teaching and scientific research.

HNU has now 13 teaching colleges/departments, namely, Literature College , Foreign Language College , Art College , Department of political science and law, Teaching University English Department , Department of trade and economy , Mathematics Department , Department of physics and electric technology , Chemistry Department , Biology Department , Department of physical education , educational technology Department , and Computer Science Department ,consisting of 35 specialities (25 for undergraduate and 10 for graduate ) including Chinese Language and Literature , Broadcast and TV News , English , Japanese, Arts , Art design- ing , Musicology , Musical Performance , Ideological and Political Education , Political and Executive Science , Science of Law , International Economy and Trade , Mathematics and Applied Mathematics , Information and Counting Science, Physics , Electronic Information Science and Technology, Electronic Information Engineer-ing, Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Engineering, Biological Science , Food Science and Engineering, Physical Education , Pedagogical Technology, Broadcast and TV Directing, Computer Science and Technology, and so on.

Some specialities are distinct in subjects. The arts and musicology are the experimental specialities of ministry of Education, the Chinese language and literature is the famous speicality in colleges and universities of Hubei province. The study of Chinese ancient literature is one of the key studies in Hubei Province. There are a group of advanced teaching and research sections and excellent courses of provincial level.

HNU actively carries out a wide range of international educational and cultural exchanges. It has established intercommunion and cooperation with some universities, colleges and educational or research institutes in America, Britain, Australia, France, Japan and so on. More than 80 foreign experts and teachers have been invited to teach or give lectures at HNU and over 10 foreign teachers works at teaching post all the year round. Many faculty members have been sent abroad for training, visit or doing research in the USA, Britain, France, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Germany , Japan, Norway, Hongkong, Macao and so on. Moreover, there has been substantial progress in the following aspects: running university jointly with overseas universities and sent out scholars and students mutually.