Datong College covers an area of 487 mu, with a total construction area of 1.55 million square meters.
Datong Teachers College is located in Hexi, He Shili, at the foot of Wuzhou Mountain. It is a century-old prestigious school with a long history and glorious tradition in northern Shaanxi. Founded in 19 13, 192 1 moved to the current campus.
1978 enrolled three-year normal college students, and in 2002 began to enroll five-year normal college students who graduated from junior high school. In 2006, it was affiliated to Datong University and renamed as Datong Teachers College. On 20 18, it was renamed as "Datong Teachers College".
In April, 2023, the official website of the school showed that all the eight normal majors in the school were national control majors, four non-normal majors, three provincial high-level training bases, 1 provincial key majors, and 1 the first batch of brand specialty construction projects in the Tenth Five-Year Plan. 37 off-campus practice training bases have been built.
The current school site is located in the west of Shilidian Village in the west of the city, 20 miles away from Datong University. The architectural style of the school is a combination of ancient and modern Chinese and western, simple and elegant, and the environment is beautiful and pleasant. Known as "Little Tsinghua" and "Opening to the North", it is one of the sixth batch of key cultural relics protection units in China.
The two elements of the architectural culture of the old campus in the Republic of China are the ivory tower modeling and the implication of studying for the rise of China. Elephant is the most important shape in the old building components of the Republic of China: the layout and composition of the audience is like a huge lying elephant with its head facing north. The front porch is like an elephant tail, and the back door and steps form an elephant head. Facing the back of the audience, the trunk, ivory and elephant eyes are lifelike.
The second floor of Lizhi Auditorium is a Roman chiton column, and a carved ornament like a head is embedded in one corner of the eaves, which is lifelike. Determined to design the auditorium as a pictogram, which means that this place is an ivory tower for learning and research.
The word "Ritual Governance" located in the center of the statue of Ritual Governance Museum is the inscription of Yuan, the first president, with far-reaching implications. It is the soul of the old campus in the Republic of China and echoes the culture of "studying for the rise of China" in the west gate of the campus.