At present, the university has nearly 20000 undergraduates and postgraduates (including correspondence and evening schools), and more than 1400 teachers, including more than 200 professors and doctors, more than 700 associate professors and associate doctors, 8 academicians of the Academy of Sciences, 7 communication academicians of the Russian Academy of Educational Sciences, 20 scientific and cultural meritorious activists, people's actors and meritorious actors. The university has established 27 dissertation defense committees, including 14 doctoral defense committees and 13 associate doctoral degree awarding committees. At present, it can cultivate more than 30 higher education talents in six aspects. The university graduates more than 20 doctors and more than 100 associate doctors every year.

There are 23 departments in the school: language, foreign language, mathematics, biology, corrective education, fine arts, music, physical education, philosophy, chemistry, geography, social science, physics, economy, Russian as a foreign language, preschool education, primary education, ethnic department in the far north, arts and crafts department, national education organizer department and life support department. There are 107 teaching and research departments in the University.

The library of Herzen Normal University has a very rich collection of books, with a collection of nearly 3 million books. It is an important library and reference center in St. Petersburg, including 10000 books published in the 17th-18th century, 20000 books published in the 19th century, and some rare books published in the early Soviet regime.

In addition to publishing a series of academic journals on a regular basis, the school also publishes academic monographs and anthologies, and publishes academic works on education and teaching jointly with foreign teaching and research institutions.

Collaboration with universities and science centers in China, USA, Germany, France, UK, Netherlands, Finland, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Israel, Hungary, Hong Kong and other countries.

There are 500 international students studying in universities. Among them, many Chinese students study in the Department of language and literature, some of them study Russian literature, some of them study languages, such as German, French and English, or study one of these languages, and learn the other as a second foreign language. In this way, they can master the foreign languages of the three countries to adapt to the era of internationalization.

Among the 110000 graduates, there are a large number of Soviet and Russian heroes, labor heroes and 2000 honorary teachers.

The major of psychology in this university is not only a strong field in the world, but also a subject lacking in our country at present. Its music and fine arts have a history of about 200 years, and its level is also first-class in Russia, but the school focuses on teaching.