Zhejiang Gongshang University

Zhejiang Gongshang University traces its origins to Hangzhou Secondary Commercial School, founded in 1911, one of China’s earliest specialist commercial schools. Hangzhou Institute of Commerce was established with State Council approval in 1980 and renamed Zhejiang Gongshang University in 2004. In 2015, it became jointly supported by the Zhejiang Provincial People’s Government, Ministry of Commerce and Ministry of Education. It was subsequently selected as a Zhejiang key development university in 2017, included in Zhejiang’s Double First-Class 196 Project in 2023, and designated a provincial high-level university development institution in 2024.

In the 2026 ABC Chinese University Rankings, it placed 98th nationally, entering the national top one hundred for the first time and rising 9 places from 2025. In category rankings, it placed fourth among Zhejiang provincial universities and seventh among Chinese finance and economics universities.

Its comprehensive disciplinary system covers 11 categories: economics, management, law, literature, science, engineering, history, philosophy, education, art and interdisciplinary studies. It has a complete bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degree system, with 9 first-level doctoral degree fields, 7 postdoctoral research stations, 16 first-level master’s degree fields and 24 professional degree authorization fields. In the Ministry of Education’s fourth discipline assessment, Statistics received a Category A rating, while 6 disciplines received Category B ratings: Business Administration, Applied Economics, Foreign Languages and Literatures, Food Science and Engineering, Law, and Computer Science and Technology. Eight disciplines rank in the ESI global top 1%: Agricultural Sciences, Engineering, Computer Science, Environment/Ecology, Chemistry, Social Sciences, General, Economics and Business, and Biology and Biochemistry. Agricultural Sciences ranks in the top 1.288‰ and Social Sciences, General in the top 3.246‰, demonstrating its strong basic and applied research capabilities.

It was among Zhejiang’s first universities with distinctive internationalization characteristics. It has partnerships with more than 250 universities and research institutions in over 50 countries, provides nearly 80 student exchange programs annually, and attracts more than 1000 international students from over 100 countries and regions, creating a multicultural campus atmosphere.