Located in Hangzhou, a historical city blessed with rich resources, talented people and prosperity, the Zhejiang Sci-Tech University is a provincial key industrial university with distinct characteristics. It has disciplines in science, industry, literature, economy, management, law and education. In April 1999, the university changed the name of Zhejiang Silk Industrial College into Zhejiang Engineering College under the approval of the Ministry of Education. It was re-named as Zhejiang Sci-Tech University in May 2004 with the approval from the Ministry of Education.
The university consists of four campuses and covers an area of 140 hectares. It has 17 affiliated colleges, 1 independent college and 52 programs for bachelor degree of which 11 are provincial key programs and 4 are the characteristic program of the Ministry of Education. The university also owns 2 programs for doctors degree, 4 first-level.
Disciplines for masters degree, 30 second-level disciplines for masters degree, 5 engineering programs for masters degree and 5 master program for full-time teachers in high schools. It currently has nearly 16,500 full-time undergraduates and masters of which more than 1,600 are masters and 5,000 are students for adult and continuous education and more than 8,000 students studying in the independent college.
