During the 80 years of running the school, a large number of well-known experts,scholars and community leaders, such as Liu Wendian, Zhou Jianren, Yu Dafu, Su Xuelin, Chen Wangdao, Zhu Xiang, Chen Wangdao, Uranus Arch, Yang Lianggong, Cheng Yansheng, Tao Yin, Zhang Haoci, Ding Xuxian, Chen Wangdao, Chen Wangdao and so on, gathered in Anhui Normal University where they wrote books and spread their thoughts. After generations of normal University experts devote themselves to inspirational teaching，sharpen the spirit of being honest, chasing dream, pursuing excellence, being persistence，form the teaching style of serious, dedicated，cultivating students，being the example ，cultivate the leaning style diligent , modesty, honest and innovative and create the school motto of being virtuous，valuing education，pursuing knowledge，being scrupulous . Since the establishment of the university, it has cultivated more than 200,000 full-time specialized talents for our country.

ANU provides subject studies in literature, history, philosophy, economics, administration, laws, science, engineering, pedagogy ,science, engineering, agriculture, artS and etc. It offers a complete and systematic student cultivation system which varies at different degree levels from bachelor to doctors and in different forms from full-time higher education, adult higher education to international education. Presently, ANU possesses 5 Ph. D. first-level subjects and 45 Ph. D. level second-level subjects, 5 post-doctoral research stations,25 master degree first-level subjects,128 master degree second-level subjects,12 professional degrees, 18 provincial key subjects,3 provincial major subjects’ construction, 88 undergraduate majors. Besides, there are one Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences established by the Ministry of Education, one provincial key laboratory, one national and regional research centre of the Ministry of Education, one provincial key laboratory built by provincial departments, two 2011 Collaborative Innovation Centers in Anhui Province, 5 Key Research Bases of Humanities and Social Sciences, 3 key laboratories of Anhui universities, one engineering laboratory in Anhui Province, one provincial database, one Anhui provincial engineering technology research center and one public service platform for science and technology innovation in Anhui province. 

ANU has more than 2,300 faculty members. Among them, there are more than 1,450 full-time teachers, nearly 840 professional technical staffs above the title in vice - high class, 3 national level teaching groups, one famous cultural and four and one batch talent, one 10000 people plan philosophy and social science leading talent, 3 millions of talents Project national candidates, 7 ministry of education excellent talent in the new century supported plan talents,”5 “Wanjiang scholar”distinguished Professors, 4“Wanjiang scholar”speech professors, one Wanjiang scholar”young scholar, two provincial 100-person plantalents,28 provincial academic and technological leaders, 47 provincial academic and technical candidates,13 provincial teaching teams,24 provincial famous teachers,28 provincial potential teachers. In addition, the number of registered students in ANU is more than 43800, among which are nearly 4900 graduate students, 21700 ordinary undergraduates, 260 international students and   17000 adult students.

The campus covers an area of 195,000 square meters in total with the building area of 90.06 million square meters and the total value of the equipment is 4.97 billion RMB. The school library is the key protection unit of ancient books in China, which has rich collection of books and  complete variety of books. There are 2.89 million volumes of books and 700 kinds of rare ancient books. Among them, Hongwu rhymes is the only one in China. General History, the Complete Works of Li Bai, The poem collection of Du Fu are precious ancient books in China,too. Besides,it also has main network resources and the databases at home and abroad. The library collection resources basically realized the digitization. In addition, there is Anhui Normal University press, which edited and published a variety of academic journals and newspapers. For example,Journal of Anhui normal University,College counselors journal, Chinese studies,Anhui Normal University Newspapers.