Foundation Programs

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.

The undergraduate preparatory class lasts for 16 weeks (one semester). Students who pass the examination can be admitted to the English-taught undergraduate major of Zhejiang University of Technology (the Chinese-taught undergraduate major must meet the corresponding language requirements), and have the priority to apply for the undergraduate scholarship of Zhejiang University of Technology.

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

International students who are physically and mentally healthy, aged 18 years or above and 25 years or below.

1. Photocopy of passport profile photo page

2.  Photocopy of all visa pages of passport in China

3. Health certificate (recent 6 months)

4. Application form

5. One photo of personal identification, size 35mm*45mm

6. Copy of the highest education certificate

7. Proof of no criminal record

8. Other supplementary materials