忻州师范学院始建于1958年，是经教育部批准组建、山西省政府主管的全日制普通本科高校，为山西省三所本科师范院校之一，是教育部、财政部确定的首批国家级人才培养模式创新实验区，被国务院授予全国唯一的“两基”工作先进单位荣誉称号。学校新校区占地面积约1619亩，总建筑面积49.08万平方米，现有全日制普通本专科生近20000人，涵盖法、教、文、史、理、工、管、经、艺等9个学科门类，44个本科专业。

Xinzhou Teachers University was founded in 1958. It is a full-time ordinary undergraduate university approved by the Ministry of Education and administered by the Shanxi Provincial Government. It is one of the three undergraduate normal universities in Shanxi Province, and one of the first batch of national talent training model innovation experimental zones determined by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Finance. It was awarded the honorary title of "Advanced Unit in Two Basics Work" by the State Council, the only one among national universities. The new campus covers an area of about 1619 mu with a total construction area of 490,800 square meters. Currently, there are nearly 20,000 full-time undergraduate and junior college students, covering 9 disciplines including law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, management, economics and art, with 44 undergraduate majors.

学校师资力量雄厚，在编教职工1300余人，其中专任教师1100余人，具有高级职称的教师351人，博士293人，双师双能型教师520人。拥有国家级一流本科专业建设点1个，教育部、财政部确定的特色专业建设点3个，国家级综合改革试点专业1个，省级一流本科专业建设点、省级优势特色专业8个。1997年起，学校创新开展扶贫顶岗实习支教工作，构建了“三位一体、协同育人”机制，累计派出4万余名学生赴农村中小学实习支教，相关成果获国家级教学成果二等奖。

The university has a strong faculty, with more than 1,300 in-service staff, including over 1,100 full-time teachers, 351 with senior professional titles, 293 doctors, and 520 "double-qualified and double-capable" teachers. It has 1 national first-class undergraduate major construction site, 3 characteristic major construction sites determined by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Finance, 1 national comprehensive reform pilot major, 8 provincial first-class undergraduate major construction sites and provincial advantageous characteristic majors. Since 1997, the university has innovatively carried out poverty alleviation and post practice teaching work, constructed a "trinity, collaborative education" mechanism, and has sent more than 40,000 students to rural primary and secondary schools for internship teaching. Relevant achievements have won the second prize of national teaching achievements.