19 12 years, a group of Henan educators, represented by Mr. Lin, with the support of Yuan Shikai and Governor Zhang of Henan Province, founded the Henan Preparatory School for Studying in Europe and America (the predecessor of the university) at the Kaifeng National Site in the Qing Dynasty, which became one of the three major training bases for studying abroad in China at that time, with the tripartite confrontation with Tsinghua (now Tsinghua) and Nanyang Public School (Jinan Jiaotong University and Shanghai Jiaotong University). General Feng Yuxiang transformed it into the Fifth National Sun Yat-sen University. Later, the name of Henan University was restored on 1984 through Zhongzhou University, the Fifth National Sun Yat-sen University, the Provincial Henan University, the National Henan University, Henan Normal University, Kaifeng Normal University and Henan Normal University. A large number of well-known professors and scholars have taught here successively, such as Feng Youlan, Dong Zuobin, Meng, Luo Tingguang, Ji, Luo, Mao and so on.
By April of 20 18, the total campus area of Henan University was 2.2 million square meters, and the construction area was 1.47 million square meters. There are 43 first-level disciplines authorized by master's degree, 24 categories authorized by master's degree, 20 first-level disciplines authorized by doctor's degree, and 15 post-doctoral research stations. There are more than 4,300 faculty members, including full-time academician 1 person, part-time academician 13 person, and more than 65,438 senior titles. There are 50,000 full-time students, including nearly 1000 graduate students and 500 international students.