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Good school- Zhejiang Gongshang University
By shirly on 2018-07-20

In the past years, ZJSU has been paying great attention to international exchanges and cooperation, and making an effort to promote education internationalization. The university has partner relationship with more than 90 universities and scientific research institutions from more than 50 countries, including the United States, Britain, Germany, France, Belgium, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Turkey, Japan, and South Korea, etc. Moreover, we have started cooperation programs with over 60 foreign universities and research institutions such as Columbia University, University of California at Berkeley, University of Manchester, Waseda University, University of Canterbury, and Chulalongkorn University in the areas of faculty and students exchange, mutual accreditation of credits, scientific research cooperation. MPM, in cooperation with University of Quebec, has trained over 600 postgraduates. Alliance Francaise de Hangzhou has developed into the largest French language training and cultural exchange center in Zhejiang Province. ZJSU also co-established Confucius Institute with Howest University, Belgium. Up to now, the number of students in Confucius Institute has reached over 600. ZJSU also co-established research centers with well-known foreign universities and research institutions, such as Sensory Science Laboratory with American Monell Chemical Sense Center.

ZJSU launched "Blue Sky" project aimed at enhancing faculty internationalization, which sends 50 promising teachers annually to foreign key universities for study and research, meanwhile dozens of academic leaders and young administrators to key universities overseas for training as well. The university encourages scholars to attend international academic meetings and activities of various kinds. ZJSU actively conducts student exchange programs with key universities overseas and has sent thousands of students in recent years to foreign universities for long-term and short-term exchange and visiting programs. From 2014, ZJSU has set up a special fund of 3 million RMB yuan annually, for sponsoring excellent students to study abroad for long or short tems.

With the development of internationalization and the overall improvement, the university has hosted and sponsored in recent years more than 20 large-scale international activities and important academic conferences, including "2010 International Association of University Presidents (IAUP) Conference of North East Asia", "the 20th International Association of Feminist Economics", "Academic Conference of East Asian Culture" co-organized with University of Columbia and "2012 Bangkok Asia Food Science Forum" co-hosted with Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. May 2011 witnessed the 100th Anniversary of ZJSU, for which nearly 100 friend universities in the US, UK, Canada and other countries sent their congratulatory messages, such as Harvard University, Cornell University, etc. In 2012, Complete Works of Dickens by the university publishing house was used as the state gift at the Book Fair of London. In 2013 ZJSU held “International Education Week”, which was hosted by ZJSU and co-organized by more than 20 partner universities from the USA, UK, Belgium, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, and Republic of Northern Cyprus.

In recent years, the university has employed over 300 foreign teachers from the United States, Britain, Germany, Australia, Japan, South Korea, etc, among which 3 foreign experts were awarded Zhejiang provincial government "West Lake Friendship Award". ZJSU invited foreign experts and scholars to give over 500 short-term courses or lectures; and had over 2000 foreign guests and visitors, such as Nobel Prize winner Professor Luc A.Montagnier, French Academician of College de France Pierre Devolve. ZJSU attaches great importance to international education. Since 2009, ZJSU established scholarship for international students, more than 100 students got this scholarship and at the same time about 100 international students got "Zhejiang Provincial Government Scholarship". To expand the number of international students and increase degree students, ZJSU has established 27 foreign-language-taught degree programs specially designed for international students. Now, the total number of international students doubles the rate every year. More than 300 foreign students are pursuing bachelor, master and doctoral degrees, and hundreds of international students annually study Chinese, Chinese culture and Chinese Business in the university.

Established in 1911 as “Hangzhou Business School"

Renamed in 1980 as “Hangzhou Institute of Commerce"

Renamed in 2004 as “Zhejiang Gongshang University"

Students: 33,400, including 400 international students

Faculty and staff: 1989, including 1472 faculty

Library collection: 2.5 million books, 3000 journals & newspapers, over 21,000 digital journals

Overal floorage: 956,000 square meters, including two libraries (over 55,000 m2), classroom and office buildings (428,000 m2), and dorms (413,000 m2), gyms (4,6000 m2)

Permanent assets: 1.81 billion RMB

Value of the equipments: 2.62 million RMB, including 8572 computers for teaching, multi-media space for 41,888 people (more than the number of students)

Honors and Reputation

"Grade A" school in the evaluation by China’s Ministry of Education in 2007

Among over 2000 Chinese colleges and universities, ZJSU’s

Statistics is ranked No. 4

Food Science is ranked No. 4

Logistics is ranked No. 5

Human Resource Management is ranked No.6

Marketing is ranked No. 10

Economics is ranked No. 28

Business administration is ranked No. 35

Arts is ranked 50

Law School is distinguished with two of top 10 Chinese Young Jurists