Normal universities directly under the Ministry of Education include Beijing Normal University, East China Normal University, Central China Normal University, Northeast Normal University, Shaanxi Normal University and Southwest University (formerly Southwest Normal University).

1. The dominant disciplines of Huazhong Normal University are pedagogy, Marxist theory, political science and the history of China, and they are rated as Class A, followed by physics, chemistry, mathematics, China language and literature, psychology, library information and archives management, and physical education.

2. The best subjects in East China Normal University are pedagogy and world history, and they got A+ in the fourth round of subject evaluation, and got A in geography, physical education, software engineering, China language and literature and statistics. Mathematics, psychology, Marxist theory, ecology and foreign language and literature are also relatively advantageous subjects.

3. Shaanxi Normal University is relatively weak, and only eight disciplines, such as Marxist theory, pedagogy, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, biology, China language and literature, and China history, have won the B+ ranking, and there is no better result.

4. The best subjects in Beijing Normal University are geography, psychology, China history, education, drama and film studies, and China language and literature. The subjects rated as Class A are environmental science and engineering, mathematics, and the subjects that are slightly worse are philosophy, statistics, foreign languages and literature, and so on.

5. The dominant disciplines of Northeast Normal University mainly include Marxist theory, education, world history, biology, ecology and statistics.

6. The dominant disciplines of Southwest University mainly include pedagogy, psychology, Marxist theory, chemistry, foreign languages and literature, and China languages and literature.