Overview of Shenyang Sport University

Shenyang Sport University is located in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province. Shenyang City has a long history for around 2600 years and possesses a good culture atmosphere and environment. As the center of economics, politics and culture in the northeast region, Shenyang is the biggest city in Northeast China. Founded in 1954, Shenyang Sport University is one of the leading sports educational institutes in China. It has a total construction area of 304,000㎡. It offers top-notch track and field training hall, wushu/gymnastics center, indoor tennis center, ping-pong/ badminton center, swimming pool, standard plastic track, football field, golf training course, multi-function hall and many other distinctive teaching stadiums. The hotel-standard International Student Apartment can accommodate 300 foreign students. It’s equipped with kitchen, dining room and other service facilities. Students can enjoy a very lovely environment inside and outside school.

The existing staffs of Shenyang Sport University are 722, including 495 teaching faculties. Shenyang Sport University orients to cultivating good quality applied sports talents with a current enrollment of 7177undergraduates and 1171 graduates.

The 18 undergraduate majors cover five disciplines: teaching, management, culture, science and arts, including 2 national characteristic majors, 1 national first-class undergraduate specialty construction point, 4 provincial-level first-class undergraduate education demonstration specialty, 3 provincial-level first-class undergraduate specialty construction points, 7 provincial-level demonstration majors, 2 provincial-level demonstration majors for transformation and development, 5 provincial-level transformation and development pilot specialty, and provincial-level comprehensive There are 2 pilot programs and 3 provincial innovation and entrepreneurship education reform pilot programs. It has 1 National Excellent Video open course, 14 provincial excellent courses, 3 provincial excellent video open courses, 2 provincial excellent resource sharing courses, 6 provincial sports excellent courses and 1 provincial public art course.

The university also enjoys 2 experimental teaching demonstration centers, 3 provincially graded educational practice bases, and one provincially graded innovative experimental area for talent-cultivating model. It also has 23 teaching and training scientific research bases at the provincial and ministry level, of which the Technique Diagnosis and Fitness Evaluation Lab for Winter Sports is one of the first three “AAA level” labs approved by the State General Administration of Sport..

Since the 13th five year plan, the school has been approved 15 national scientific research projects, including 14 National Natural Science and social science fund projects, 1 national key research and development program project, more than 90 science and technology awards at provincial and ministerial level and more than 40 science and technology service projects of the State Sports Administration. The Key Laboratory of winter sports technical diagnosis and function evaluation of State General Administration of physical education is the largest comprehensive research and Development Laboratory of sports major in Northeast China. Sports social science research center is the key research base of Humanities and social sciences of Liaoning Education Department and sports philosophy and social science key research base of State Administration of physical education. Northeast Asian Sports Research Center is Liaoning Province Liaoning sports industry development research base, a new think tank of colleges and universities, is the economic and social development research base of Liaoning Province. Journal of Shenyang Institute of physical education is a core journal of Chinese sports, a core journal of Chinese Humanities and Social Sciences, and an extended source journal of CSSCI. The library has more than 870000 books.

The school has trained more than 60000 sports talents at all levels. All previous students have won 129 gold medals and 310 medals in the Olympic Games, world championships, world cup and other world competitions. In Freestyle Skiing Aerials, the self-developed athletes participated in the 18th-23rd Winter Olympic Games on behalf of the Chinese team, winning 10 of the 12 medals (1 gold, 6 silver and 3 bronze) in the snow events in the history of China's Winter Olympics. Han Xiaopeng won the men's Freestyle Skiing Aerials championship in the 20th Winter Olympic Games, which achieved two "zero" breakthroughs in men's and snow events in the history of China's Winter Olympics. Zheng Shuyin won the women's Taekwondo 67kg champion in the 31st Summer Olympic Games. So far, the university has become the only university in China that has independently trained athletes and won gold medals in the winter and summer Olympic Games. The school has 26 projects, 40 school representative teams, and more than 700 students participate in the training. In the past three years, we have won 180 gold medals, 143 silver medals and 139 bronze medals in competitions at or above the provincial level. Cricket, skiing, mountaineering, fancy rope skipping and other school representative teams participated in international and intercontinental competitions on behalf of the country and achieved excellent results.

The school sport clubs came out on top in various national sports schools events including track and field, football, volleyball, Wushu, swim, sports dance, aerobics, Judose and other events.

The university has established exchanged programs with more than 30 universities and sports organizations in over 20 countries and regions including the United States, Great Britain, France, the Republic of Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Ukraine, Austria, and Australia.

Shenyang Sport University will uphold “Virtuous, Learned, Strong-willed and Excellent” school motto spirit and will strive to become top university domestically and well known internationally.