Zhejiang University

Zhejiang University is one of China's oldest and most highly regarded research universities, founded in 1897 in Hangzhou as the Qiushi Academy and reconstituted in its present form in 1998 through the merger of four Hangzhou-based institutions. Administered directly by the Ministry of Education, it belongs to the C9 League and to the national Double First-Class, Project 985 and Project 211 programmes. The university is spread over seven campuses covering roughly 1,538 acres, with Zijingang servi...