The nursing specialty of Zhejiang University belongs to the medical college under the Ministry of Medicine. At present, the departments of medical college are: basic medicine department, clinical medicine department I, clinical medicine department II and clinical medicine department III, including nursing department, stomatology department and public health department.

The Department of Nursing of Zhejiang University was established in 1987 with the assistance of American Private Health Foundation, and enrolled nursing students for the first time in 1988. Undergraduate nursing education officially started on 1995. In 2000, it began to recruit postgraduate nursing students focusing on clinical medicine, and was awarded a master's degree in 2003.