In addition to being rated as "excellent" by the Ministry of Education, Henan University has also been awarded honorary titles such as "National Civilized Campus", "National Advanced Unit for Graduates' Employment", "Henan Innovative University" and "National Model University for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education for College Students".

There are 92 undergraduate majors in the school, covering arts, science, engineering, medicine, law, economics, management, teaching, art and other disciplines, and there are 7 first-class disciplines authorized by doctoral degrees.

Characteristics and characteristics of Henan University;

1. personnel training: pay attention to the improvement of overall literacy and the cultivation of professional skills, and strive to cultivate high-quality talents to meet social needs and national strategies.

2. Cross-integration: pay attention to cross-integration between disciplines, build an interdisciplinary platform, improve interdisciplinary development ability and cultivate interdisciplinary talents.

3. Innovation and entrepreneurship: attach importance to innovation and entrepreneurship education, actively promote college students' entrepreneurship, establish a sound innovation and entrepreneurship education system, and establish a good innovation and entrepreneurship culture.

4. Social services: actively serve local economic and social development, vigorously promote cooperation in Industry-University-Research, strengthen the transformation of achievements, and make contributions to social development and progress.

5. Internationalization: strengthen international cooperation and exchanges, establish an international education system, broaden students' horizons and create a broader development space.

The educational philosophy of Henan University is "teaching and educating people, all-round development", which embodies the educational goal of cultivating students' all-round development and having both ability and political integrity. Specifically, it includes the following three aspects:

1. teaching: pay attention to cultivating students' innovative spirit and practical ability, adopt the teaching method of "problem-research-application", encourage students to explore, practice and innovate, and improve their professional ability and learning ability.

2. Education: pay attention to cultivating students' humanistic quality and sense of social responsibility, emphasize students' moral character and holistic education, and cultivate students' comprehensive quality and leadership ability.

3. All-round development: Committed to cultivating compound talents with international vision and innovative ability, emphasizing the all-round development of students and paying attention to the development of students' mental health and physical and mental health.

The development of Henan University;

1. Initial period: the predecessor of Henan University can be traced back to 19 12. After many mergers and adjustments, Henan University was finally established in 1984, with humanities, science, engineering, medicine and other disciplines, and began to develop on a large scale.

2. Construction, development and growth: Since its establishment, Henan University has always been committed to building a high-level comprehensive university, established a perfect faculty, education system and scientific research network, attached importance to international cooperation, actively promoted innovation and entrepreneurship education, and constantly promoted development, becoming one of the well-known universities in China.

3. Achieving the goal of first-class university: In the national high-level university construction project of the Ministry of Education, Henan University was identified as a first-class university, vigorously promoting the construction of first-class disciplines and the training of first-class talents, strengthening internal governance and institutional innovation, promoting the cooperation between schools and places and the deep integration of Industry-University-Research, and striving to achieve the goal of becoming a comprehensive, research-oriented and first-class university with international influence.