Austria and South Korea, as economically and socially developed countries, have their own characteristics in teacher education, but academic circles in China pay little attention to it. This paper studies the normal student selection system in Austria and South Korea, explores its status quo. It is found that the normal student selection system in both countries has the characteristics of diversified evaluation methods, effective evaluation standards and scientific evaluation contents. The selection of normal students in China can learn from the experiences of Austria and South Korea, and take advantage of such opportunities as the current university independent enrollment, the Gaokao reform and the exploration on a holistic college entrance scheme, try to carry out "independent enrollment examination for normal students" in the normal universities directly under the Ministry of Education, further strengthen the enrollment autonomy of normal universities, and make holistic evaluation and admission incorporating Gaokao scores, academic qualification test scores, comprehensive quality evaluation and interviews, so as to select high-quality normal students.