Hangzhou has Zhejiang Shu Ren College, Zhijiang College of Zhejiang University of Technology, Information Engineering College of Hangzhou Dianzi University, Science and Technology and Art College of Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Binjiang College of Zhejiang University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Qianjiang College of Hangzhou Normal University.

There are 12 private colleges and universities such as Hangzhou Business School of Zhejiang Gongshang University, College of Modern Science and Technology of China Ji Liang University, Xihu University, Zhejiang Yu Ying Vocational and Technical College, Zhejiang Changzheng Vocational and Technical College and Hangzhou Wanxiang Vocational and Technical College.

National private institutions of higher learning refer to institutions of higher learning and other educational institutions organized by enterprises, institutions, social organizations, other social organizations and individual citizens with non-state financial education funds. Their school-running levels are divided into junior college, undergraduate and postgraduate education, including independent private colleges and independent colleges.

The state encourages social forces to establish educational institutions that implement compulsory education as a supplement to the implementation of compulsory education by the state. The state strictly controls social forces to establish institutions of higher learning. The state implements a school-running license system for schools run by social forces. Education administrative departments at all levels shall, in accordance with the prescribed examination and approval authority, issue school licenses to approved educational institutions.

Proportion of private universities:

By 20021,there were 764 private colleges and universities in China, 9 fewer than the previous year, accounting for 25.37% of the total number of colleges and universities in China. Among them, there are 390 ordinary undergraduate schools; There are 22 vocational schools at the undergraduate level.

350 vocational (college) schools; There are 256 adult colleges and universities. There are 8,457,400 students in private general and vocational colleges, an increase of 544,000 over the previous year, accounting for 24. 19% of the students in national general and vocational colleges.