School of Journalism and Communication of Zhengzhou University was established in June 2004. Its predecessor was the Department of Journalism of Zhengzhou University, and/kloc-0 was the first journalism institution in the Central Plains in April 1984. Based on the urgent needs of society, Zhengzhou University began to establish journalism on 1976, and enrolled more than 80 students that year, becoming the first batch of journalism students in the history of Henan higher education. Entrusted by the Propaganda Department of Qinghai Provincial Party Committee and Henan Provincial Party Committee, 1982 began to recruit a two-year training course for journalists. Approved by the former State Education Commission, the Chinese Department of Zhengzhou University set up a journalism major in April, 1983, and began to recruit four-year undergraduates in July of the same year.
The College is a member of the Teaching Steering Committee of the School of Journalism and Communication of the Ministry of Education. Journalism is one of the first "second-level professional construction sites" in colleges and universities of the Ministry of Education, and it is also the only key discipline of journalism and communication in Henan Province.
At present, the College has three open research institutions, namely, Mu Qing Research Center, Cultural Industry Research Center and Media Development Research Center. It has three institutes, namely, Institute of Journalism and Communication, Institute of Advertising and Media Economics, Institute of Media and Social Development, Institute of Cultural Communication and Institute of Editing and Publishing.