HNU has a staff of more than 4,270, of whom over 2,393 are full-time teachers. The HNU faculty has received 372 national high-level talent awards and 275 national awards for high-level young researchers, including six full-time memberships in the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering and five winners of the National Outstanding Teacher Award. HNU has seven innovative research groups supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), one inaugural philosophy and social science innovation team approved by the Ministry of Education, one innovative team recognized by the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence, 14 national-level teaching groups, and four candidates for the national Huang Danian-style Teacher Teams.

Data updated in January 2026