Applied Chemistry

Located in Hangzhou, a city known for enchanting natural beauty and abundant cultural heritages, Zhejiang University of Technology is one of the top industrial universities in mainland China with engineering, especially chemical and biological engineering, as its strongest element. At present, the long-term Chinese language courses program and the summer course of short-term Chinese training are the favourites of International students. Apart from that, a total of 86 high-quality degree programs, such as advertising (bachelor's degree), architecture (master's degree), mechanical-electronical engineering (doctoral degree) etc. have been growing in popularity among foreign students as well. Welcome to study at ZJUT in the "Heaven on Earth"!

ZJUT equips itself with an excellent team of faculties. Among its 3200 staff, there are 410 professors，965 associate professors and over 870 teachers with doctor’s degree. ZJUT has one academician of CAE (Chinese Academy of Engineering), three academicians of CAE and CAS (Chinese Academy of Sciences) whom ZJUT shares with other institutions, 43 teachers titled with “National Excellent Teacher” and 47 teachers with “Provincial Excellent Teacher”. At present, there are about 34,900 full-time students，7,256 graduate students including 6,823 postgraduate students and 433 PhD candidates and over 1012 international students.

Having established interscholastic cooperative relationship with about 60 colleges and universities from America, England, France, German, Japan, Belgium, Australia, Russia, Korea, the Netherlands, Sweden, Austria, etc, and about 10 colleges and universities from Hong Kong and Macao, ZJUT becomes more and more active in external exchange, and makes great progress in many aspects, such as dual culture of students, academic exchange between teachers and scientific research, running schools with foreign countries, introduction of overseas intelligence, education of overseas students, teaching Chinese as foreign language, etc. So far, ZJUT has been entitled to recruit overseas students with Chinese government scholarship, CIS scholarship and scholarship of Zhejiang government, from about 75 countries and areas, coming to study Chinese language and culture, undergraduate courses and master courses.

Zhejiang University of Technology has a long history of education and training of international students, which can be traced back to 1954. After the reform and opening up, the university was approved by the Ministry of Education in 1994 to undertake the task of training international students in China; In 2010, the university became a recipient of Chinese government scholarships for international students. In 2012, the University took internationalization as one of the four strategies for the development of the university, comprehensively promoted the process of internationalization, issued the "Action Plan for Studying Abroad", set up undergraduate majors taught in English, and the number of international students increased significantly. In 2017, it became the recipient of the "Silk Road" government scholarship; In 2022, it successfully passed the higher education quality certification for international students in China. The university is currently the vice chairman unit of the Foreign Students Education Management Branch of the Chinese Society of Higher Education, the council member unit of the China Education International Exchange Association, the chairman unit of the Foreign Students Education Management Branch of the Zhejiang Higher Education Association, the vice chairman unit of the Zhejiang International Students Education and Teaching Steering Committee, and the construction unit of the first batch of international students' national conditions education master studios in Zhejiang Province. So far, the university has trained nearly 10,000 international students in China.

The University actively builds the brand of "Study Abroad Engineering University", adheres to the work idea of "seeking development by student source, establishing brand by quality, and retaining people's hearts by service", builds a scientific and efficient international student management model that conforms to the situation of the university, actively carries out the "International major and international curriculum system construction plan", promotes the construction of international teaching system, and improves the education level of overseas students in China. Improve the training quality of international students in China. The university has established 14 undergraduate programs and 11 master and doctoral programs taught in English, which have become the main body of the teaching and training system for international students in China, and the English-taught majors have undertaken more than 90% of the training tasks for international students. In addition, 46 national first-class majors, 14 provincial first-class majors and 22 postgraduate majors taught in Chinese are also open to international students. Up to now, the university has a total of 1034 international students, including 152 postgraduate students. The top six majors in terms of the number of international students in China are computer science and technology, international economics and trade, electrical engineering and automation, mechanical engineering, civil engineering, software engineering, etc. The school also has a complete non-academic Chinese language training system, training more than 600 foreign language students every year.

The University will continue to adhere to the international student education policy of "controlling the scale, optimizing the structure, standardizing the management, and improving the quality", improve the system and mechanism of studying in China, innovate the talent training mode, enhance the education level, build a multi-level and multi-type scholarship system, improve the student structure, and increase the proportion of postgraduates studying abroad. We will actively promote the education of international students in China under the Belt and Road Initiative, carry out cooperation projects on studying abroad, form a pattern of international cooperation in the education of international students with extensive exchanges, in-depth cooperation, diverse forms and reasonable layout, and cultivate more international friends and outstanding talents who know China and are friends with China and benefit the world.

A Brief Survey of Zhejiang University of Technology

Zhejiang University of Technology (ZJUT), located in Hangzhou, a city famous for its pretty landscape, was established in 1953. Yet its history can be dated back further to 1910 when its original body—Zhejiang Intermediate Industrial School-- was founded. ZJUT is a key comprehensive university of Zhejiang province, covering a large range of disciplines like liberal arts, science, law, economics, pharmaceutical science, industrial and commercial management and education, etc.

ZJUT has 3 campuses, covering a total area of over 3200 Mu (equivalent to 213 hectares) with a floor space of over 830,000 square meters. ZJUT has 21 schools and 2 departments with full-time undergraduates of 28,000 and postgraduates of 1,600. Among its 2,800 staff members, there are over 800 professors and associate professors. ZJUT now has one academician of CAE (Chinese Academy of Engineering), and three academicians of CAE and CAS (Chinese Academy of Sciences) whom ZJUT shares with other institutions of high education or research. The value of ZJUT’s fixed assets totals about 1.82 billion RMB. The university library has a collection of about 2,80 million volumes (including electronic books) and over 17,000 kinds of Chinese and foreign journals and periodicals.

ZJUT has 21 provincial key specialties, 7 provincial innovative bases, 2 provincial research bases for humanities and social sciences, one national key laboratory breeding base, one co-building key laboratory of Zhejiang province and the Ministry of Education. ZJUT also heads a national University-based High-tech Zone in Hangzhou. ZJUT has one post-doctoral station, 12 doctoral degree programs，71 master degree programs, and 55 undergraduate programs. Over 250 research achievements of ZJUT have won the National, Provincial and Ministry Prize in Scientific Inventions and the Prize of achievements in Scientific Researches, among which 10 projects have won the National Prize of Invention and the National Progress Prize in Science and Technology. In 2005, the numbers of applications for patents and those granted ranked respectively 12th and 28th among all the universities in China. Besides, in 2005, the funds ZJUT received for scientific research projects totaled 243 million RMB. In 2005, in terms of the articles excerpted by the three international index agencies—EI, SCI, and ISTP, ZJUT ranked respectively 55th, 62nd and 52nd among all Chinese universities according to EI, SCI, and ISTP statistics. ZJUT also ranks 91st among all the Chinese universities, according to the ranking made by the Management Science Institute of China.

Up to now, ZJUT has established partnerships with 38 universities from America, Britain, France, Germany, Japan, Belgium, Australia, and Russia and so on, and is authorized to enroll overseas students and students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan districts.

 

Living Conditions

Zhejiang University of Technology (ZJUT) has university clinic, bank, stores, library, mess hall, gym, stadium, swimming pool, outdoor courts for playing volleyball, basketball, football etc. Other facilities such as hospital, bank, post offices and supermarket around the campus provide students with convenient services.

ZJUT provides international students with comfortable dormitories equipped with TV set, telephone, air-condition, washer, fridge, microwave oven, dryer, water heater, kitchen utensils and ADSL network.
Dormitory for international students:

Double Room: 5300RMB/ year

3 Steps to Apply to a Chinese University

1.The applicant, who is between18-25 years old, has graduated from high school, has achieved above level 4(including) in HSK can apply for programs taught in Chinese.

2.The high school graduate without certificate of HSK can apply for our Try-out Courses after approval by interview, the validity of trial period is one year.

3.Programs in English:

1) English is the native language/official language; or

2) IELTS5.5 or TOEFL 60; or

3) Studied courses taught in English in high school or college; or

4) English level admitted by ZJUT.

1.The copy of passport

2. 3 recent photos (color photo in white background,35mm*45mm)

3.The notarized high school diploma and the copy of transcript (The documents in other language except Chinese and English shall enclosed with the notarized translated version in Chinese or English)

4.This year's high school graduates are expected to show proof of expected graduation and present their high school diploma upon enrollment

5.The copy of HSK transcript（for Chinese programs）

6.Students whose native language is not English should provide proof of English proficiency or the copy of IELTS/TOEFL transcript (for English programs)  

7.Physical examination form（in 6 month）

8.Non-Criminal Record

9.Application form (online application)

10.Letter Of Commitment

11.Statement of Financial Support