Zhejiang University is one of the earliest new institutions of higher learning founded by China people. It is a comprehensive national key university. It was once called "Oriental Cambridge" by Joseph Needham, a famous British scholar, and it is also a famous "2 1 1 project", "985 project" and "world-class university and first-class discipline" in China.

Zhejiang University has 8,909 faculty members, including 45 academicians of China Academy of Sciences and China Academy of Engineering, senior professor of liberal arts 10, winner of Changjiang Scholar Award Program of Ministry of Education10, and winner of National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars 133.

The school has 7 departments, 37 professional colleges, 1 engineering colleges, 2 Chinese-foreign cooperative schools and 7 affiliated hospitals, and offers 128 undergraduate majors, covering philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, art, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, management and so on/kloc-.