Wenzhou University

The main university has 15 schools, 14481 full-time students and 9846 adult continuing education students of various types. It has 1742 faculty and staff, including 1045 full-time teachers, of whom 173 have full senior and 386 associate senior professional titles. A total of 328 individuals have received 560 selections in talent programs at various levels. Its high-level talent includes 1 jointly appointed academician; 2 national Ten Thousand Talents Program participants; 2 Changjiang Scholars distinguished professors; 1 recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars; 2 nationally recognized young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions; 1 Ministry of Health young and middle-aged expert with outstanding contributions; 4 national Hundred, Thousand and Ten Thousand Talents Project participants; 3 national Thousand Talents Program participants; 1 recipient of the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars; 1 participant in the Ministry of Education’s New Century Talent Support or Development Program; 9 experts receiving special State Council allowances; 5 high-level foreign experts in education and culture; and 2 Zhejiang special-grade experts. They also include 1 National Advanced Worker, 1 National May 1 Labor Medal recipient and 2 National Outstanding Teachers. The university operates Oujiang College, an independent college offering 44 undergraduate programs, with 7306 full-time students and a relatively independent faculty.

The university has master’s degree authorization in 6 first-level and 41 second-level disciplines, and 2 professional master’s degree categories: education and engineering, the latter covering mechanical engineering, architecture and civil engineering, and environmental engineering. Chemistry and Chinese language and literature are supported as Zhejiang Class A first-class disciplines. Electrical engineering, law, Marxist theory, applied economics, mechanical engineering, ecology and civil engineering are supported as Zhejiang Class B first-class disciplines. Chemistry ranks in the global ESI top 1% and third within Zhejiang. According to the Evaluation Report on Chinese Graduate Education and Disciplines and Programs, the university’s graduate education competitiveness ranking improved for 7 consecutive years, from the 63% level in 2010 to the 38% level in 2016. Its 44 undergraduate admission programs cover literature, science, engineering, law, education, economics, history, management, the arts and other categories. It has 2 national distinctive program development sites, 1 national pilot program for comprehensive reform, 5 pilot programs under the Ministry of Education’s Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program, and 37 provincial key programs or programs under development, advantageous programs, and distinctive or internationalized programs. Its teaching resources include 10 national quality courses and quality resource-sharing courses, 38 provincial quality courses, 6 nationally planned textbooks, 31 provincial key textbooks, 1 national virtual simulation experimental teaching center, 1 national off-campus practice education base for university students, 1 provincial off-campus practice education base for university students, 4 provincial key experimental teaching demonstration centers or development sites, 8 provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers, and 4 provincial teaching teams.
The university is actively advancing internationalization and undertakes extensive international exchange and cooperation in teaching and research. It has partnerships with 75 institutions in 18 countries and regions. It jointly founded Wenzhou-Kean University with Kean University in the United States, operates a Confucius Institute with Burapha University in Thailand, and jointly established Wenzhou University’s Italian branch with the University of Florence and the University of Siena. It offers 2 cooperative undergraduate education programs with overseas partners, in electronic information engineering and marketing. It has 11 entirely English-taught undergraduate programs: mechanical engineering, biotechnology, chemistry, civil engineering, international economics and trade, marketing, business administration, communication engineering, software engineering, electronic information science and technology, and international law. It also offers 4 entirely English-taught master’s programs: mechanical engineering, chemistry, software engineering and entrepreneurship education. It is an entrusted host institution for Chinese Government Scholarship students, is qualified to recruit undergraduate and master’s students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan and overseas Chinese communities, and is one of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council’s first Chinese language education bases. It is also among the first 10 institutions under Zhejiang’s Internationally Distinctive University Development Project.