Below is the List of Universities and Colleges in Zhejiang. As of April 2018, there were 108 higher education institutions and 9 continuing education institutions. As part of the Chinese education system, most universities and colleges in Zhejiang are public universities founded and run by the government, except for 36 private universities and colleges.
The University of International Relations is a public university based in Beijing, under the Ministry of State Security. It was a National Key University. Its Hangzhou campus used to be Zhejiang Second Police College under the Ministry of State Security since 1983 before it was made the Hangzhou campus of the university in 1997. The campus has been training Tibetan students since 1983 and only recruits Tibetan students who are tested in Chinese in the National College Entrance Exam.[4][5][6]
Independent colleges are the private sector of public universities, which offers for-profit degree education for those who are not admitted to public universities. They were first set up in Zhejiang as a business model since the 1990s, yet a national reform has aimed to transform them into vocational or private universities independent of their affiliated universities since 2019.[10] For example, Zhejiang University City College and Ningbo Institute of Technology, Zhejiang University were transformed into public universities,[11] with the latter renamed as NingboTech University. The reform led to students' protests in 2021, after which the government suspended the reform.[12] In Zhejiang, the reforms for Hangzhou Dianzi University Information Engineering School, Zhejiang Gongshang University Hangzhou College of Commerce, Zhijiang College of Zhejiang University of Technology had since been suspended.[13]
Following the foreign concept of the university town[22] and the proposal by China Association for Promoting Democracy's Ningbo committee,[23] the Ningbo Higher Education Park was built in 1999-2000 as the first higher education park in China.[24] Since then, similar parks have been built in Zhejiang. Currently, the largest one is the Xiasha Higher Education Park, also named Qiantang Science Town,[25] which is home to 14 higher education institutions and 200 thousand students.[26] Below is the full list of the universities according to their university towns.
^ abcHangzhou University and Zhejiang Agricultural University were merged into Zhejiang University in 1998.
^The Double First Class subjects at Zhejiang University are chemistry, biology, ecology, mechanical engineering, optical engineering, materials science, electrical engineering, control science and engineering, computer science and technology, agricultural engineering, environmental science and engineering, software engineering, horticulture, plant protection, basic medicine, pharmacy, management science and engineering, agricultural and forestry economic management.
Unless otherwise stated, all the universities and colleges listed are provincial or municipal public universities and colleges. DBC: Double First-Class Construction; 985: Project 985; 211: Project 211; Key: National Key Universities; P+M: provincial and ministerial co-founded universities. Degree: institutions offering degree education; Professional: institutions offering professional training and certificates. Vocational: institutions offering vocational training and diploma. Private: privately founded. Foreign: Sino-foreign cooperative joint universities; Independent: Independent college affiliated to a university; Continuing: Continuing education institutions; Private: Privately founded As of April 2018, there were 108 higher education institutions in Zhejiang, among which 36 were private, and 9 Continuing education institutions.
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