QS Top 200 World University Ranking 2011

Ranking	University	Country
1	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom
2	Harvard University	United States
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States
4	Yale University	United States
5	University of Oxford	United Kingdom
6	Imperial College London	United Kingdom
7	UCL (University College London)	United Kingdom
8	University of Chicago	United States
9	University of Pennsylvania	United States
10	Columbia University	United States
11	Stanford University	United States
12	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	United States
13	Princeton University	United States
14	University of Michigan	United States
15	Cornell University	United States
16	Johns Hopkins University	United States
17	McGill University	Canada
18	ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)	Switzerland
19	Duke University	United States
20	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom
21	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States
22	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
23	University of Toronto	Canada
24	Northwestern University	United States
25	The University of Tokyo	Japan
26	Australian National University	Australia
27	King’s College London (University of London)	United Kingdom
28	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore
29	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom
30	University of Bristol	United Kingdom
31	The University of Melbourne	Australia
32	Kyoto University	Japan
33	École Normale Supérieure, Paris	France
34	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States
35	Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland
36	École Polytechnique	France
37	The Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
38	The University of Sydney	Australia
39	Brown University	United States
40	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong
41	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States
42	Seoul National University	Korea, South
43	Carnegie Mellon University	United States
44	New York University (NYU)	United States
45	Osaka University	Japan
46	Peking University	China
47	Tsinghua University	China
48	The University of Queensland	Australia
49	The University of New South Wales	Australia
50	The University of Warwick	United Kingdom
51	University of British Columbia	Canada
52	University of Copenhagen	Denmark
53	Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg	Germany
54	Technische Universität München	Germany
55	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	United States
56	University of Washington	United States
57	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan
58	Nanyang Technological University (NTU)	Singapore
59	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom
60	Monash University	Australia
61	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States
62	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	Germany
63	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands
64	London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)	United Kingdom
65	Trinity College Dublin	Ireland
66	Freie Universität Berlin	Germany
67	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom
68	KU Leuven	Belgium
69	University of Geneva	Switzerland
70=	Boston University	United States
70=	Tohoku University	Japan
72	The University of Sheffield	United Kingdom
73	The University of Western Australia	Australia
74	The University of Nottingham	United Kingdom
75	University of Southampton	United Kingdom
76	University of Texas at Austin	United States
77	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)	United States
78	Washington University in St. Louis	United States
79	Aarhus University	Denmark
80=	Nagoya University	Japan
80=	Utrecht University	Netherlands
82	The University of Auckland	New Zealand
83	Uppsala University	Sweden
84	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States
85	Purdue University	United States
86	Lund University	Sweden
87	National Taiwan University (NTU)	Taiwan
88	Leiden University	Netherlands
89	University of Helsinki	Finland
90	KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology	Korea, South
91	Fudan University	China
92	The University of Adelaide	Australia
93	University of Leeds	United Kingdom
94	Pennsylvania State University	United States
95	Durham University	United Kingdom
96	University of York	United Kingdom
97	University of St Andrews	United Kingdom
98	Pohang University of Science And Technology (POSTECH)	Korea, South
99	Dartmouth College	United States
100	University of Alberta	Canada
101	University of California, Davis	United States
102	University of Minnesota	United States
103	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands
104	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands
105	Universität Freiburg	Germany
106	University of Zurich	Switzerland
107	University of Southern California	United States
108	University of Oslo	Norway
109	Maastricht University	Netherlands
110	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
111	Ohio State University	United States
112	Lomonosov Moscow State University	Russia
113	University of Maryland, College Park	United States
114	Emory University	United States
115	University of Groningen	Netherlands
116	University of Pittsburgh	United States
117	Rice University	United States
118	University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)	United States
119	Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC)	France
120	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel
121	University of Bergen	Norway
122	Kyushu University	Japan
123	University of Liverpool	United Kingdom
124	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China
125	Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL)	Belgium
126	University of Virginia	United States
127	Newcastle University	United Kingdom
128	University of Rochester	United States
129	Yonsei University	Korea, South
130	University of Otago	New Zealand
131	Vanderbilt University	United States
132	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	Germany
133	École Normale Supérieure de Lyon	France
134	University College Dublin	Ireland
135	Cardiff University	United Kingdom
136	University of Lausanne	Switzerland
137	Université de Montréal	Canada
138	Radboud University Nijmegen	Netherlands
139	Hokkaido University	Japan
140	Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen	Germany
141	University of Aberdeen	United Kingdom
142	University of Colorado at Boulder	United States
143	University of Bern	Switzerland
144	Queen's University	Canada
145	Case Western Reserve University	United States
146	Eindhoven University of Technology	Netherlands
147	Universität Karlsruhe	Germany
148	University of California, Irvine	United States
149	Georg-August-Universität Göttingen	Germany
150	Technical University of Denmark	Denmark
151	University of Basel	Switzerland
152	Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen	Germany
153	Lancaster University	United Kingdom
154	Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn	Germany
155	University of Vienna	Austria
156	University of Cape Town	South Africa
157	The University of Western Ontario	Canada
158	Texas A&M University	United States
159	McMaster University	Canada
160	University of Waterloo	Canada
161	University of Florida	United States
162	University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC)	United States
163	University of Arizona	United States
164	Michigan State University	United States
165	University of Ghent	Belgium
166	Georgetown University	United States
167	Universiti Malaya (UM)	Malaysia
168	University of Bath	United Kingdom
169=	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)	Mexico
169=	Universidade de São Paulo	Brazil
171	Chulalongkorn University	Thailand
172	Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL)	United Kingdom
173	Tel Aviv University	Israel
174	Tufts University	United States
175	Wageningen University	Netherlands
176	Universitat de Barcelona (UB)	Spain
177	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong
178	Stockholm University	Sweden
179	VU University Amsterdam	Netherlands
180	KTH, Royal Institute of Technology	Sweden
181	University College Cork	Ireland
182	Universität Frankfurt am Main	Germany
183	Università di Bologna (UNIBO)	Italy
184	University of Gothenburg	Sweden
185	Waseda University	Japan
186=	Nanjing University	China
186=	University of Tsukuba	Japan
188=	Keio University	Japan
188=	University of Science and Technology of China	China
190	Korea University	Korea, South
191	Zhejiang University	China
192	University of Iowa	United States
193	Queen's University of Belfast	United Kingdom
194	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona	Spain
195	University of Leicester	United Kingdom
196	Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)	Belgium
197=	University of Antwerp	Belgium
197=	University of Sussex	United Kingdom
199	University of Dundee	United Kingdom
200	King Saud University	Saudi Arabia

King Saud University

King Saud University (KSU, Arabic: جامعة الملك سعود‎) is a public university located in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It was founded in 1957 by King Saud bin Abdul Aziz as Riyadh University, as the first university in the kingdom not dedicated to religious subjects.The university was created to meet the shortage of skilled workers in Saudi Arabia. It was renamed to King Saud University in 1982.

The student body of KSU today consists of about 37,874 students of both sexes. The university offers courses in the natural sciences, the humanities, and professional studies, for which it charges no tuition. The medium of instruction in undergraduate programs is English except for Arabic and Islamic subjects.

History

Establishing Saudi Arabia’s first university was a response to the educational and professional needs of a young nation. Abdulaziz Al-Saud, proclaimed the King in 1932, and began laying the foundations for modernizing his country and establishing an educational system. In 1953, Saud, the eldest son of Abdulaziz, acceded to the throne upon his father's death. He would soon institute the Council of Ministers and establish the Ministry Education.

Prince Fahd, who would eventually become the Saudi King himself, assumed the office of the first Ministry of Education, and following the first session of the Council of Ministers, he announce, “We will shortly establish the first Saudi University, this is a foregone conclusion. This university will be one of the most prominent houses of culture and sciences and will be worthy of our country where the light of Islamic faith and civilization has emanated.” The Kingdom's first institute of higher education, King Saud University, was subsequently opened in Riyadh in 1957.

Prince Fahd was committed to promoting higher education, and once said, “I am interested, before anything else, in supporting higher and vocational education in this country in order to add a new and illustrious chapter to our glorious history. Establishing a Saudi university with all its colleges, institutes and laboratories, built according to the highest of standards, is my immediate concern.”

In 1957, according to the dictates of the Royal Decree No. 17, Prince Fahd announced the founding of King Saud University, established in order to, “Disseminate and promote knowledge in Our Kingdom for widening the base of scientific and literary study, and for keeping abreast with other nations in the arts and sciences and for contributing with them discovery and invention”, in addition to reviving Islamic civilization and articulate its benefits and glories, along with its ambitions to nurture the young virtuously and to guarantee their healthy minds and ethics.”

KSU: A History of Success

Students began studying in the College of Arts in the 1957-58 academic year. Since that time, KSU has gone through many stages of developments, and its administrative organization has developed and adapted according to the diverse needs and expanding role of the nation.

A great many of changes would take place in the coming years, such as the establishing of new colleges and opening of new branches throughout the Kingdom. Below is a collection of some of the most significant changes and developments to take place at King Saud University since its founding in 1957:

Between 1958 and 1960, three colleges are established: the College of Sciences, the College of Business (now the College of Public Administration) and the College of Pharmacy.

Royal Decree No. 112 grants King Saud University independent status with its own budget; the University was now responsible for higher education, promoting scholarly research and advancing the sciences and arts in the country. The Minister of Education was to be Rector of King Saud University, while the administrative positions of Vice Rector and Secretary General were established and each college and institute was required to have a dean, a vice dean, and a university council. (1961)

The College of Agriculture is established; in the same year, control over the Colleges of Engineering and Education, having been under the Ministry of Education in cooperation with UNESCO, is assumed by the University (1965)

The name King Saud University is changed to the University of Riyadh (1967)

The College of Medicine (1969)

Arabic Language Institute for non-Arabic speakers, as well as the Deanships of Admission and Registration and Students Affairs and Libraries (1974)

The College of Dentistry and the College of Applied Medical Sciences are added to the Riyadh campus and the launching of the Abha campus with the College of Education (1976)

The Graduate College assumes role of supervising and organizing all graduate programs in the various departments of the University (1978)

The College of Medicine at Abha (1980)

A branch in Qassim opens with the Colleges of Agriculture, Veterinary Medicine, and Economics and Administration (1981)

Celebrating its 25th anniversary, the University of Riyadh goes back to its original name of King Saud University at the orders of King Khalid bin Abdulaziz. The Deanship of Community Service and Continuing Education replaces the Center for Community Service and King Khalid University Hospital (KKUH) is formally opened (1982)

The Colleges of Computer and Information Science Sciences and Architecture and Planning (1984)

The Institute of Languages and Translation (1991), but becomes the College of Languages and Translation (1995)

The Council of Higher Education approves the creation of the Center for Consulting and Research, which would eventually be renamed the King Abdullah Center for Consulting and Research (1996)

King Saud University Community College in Jazan and the College of Sciences at the Qassim campus (1997)

King Khalid University is accorded university status in southwest Saudi Arabia. The branch of Imam Islamic University becomes an independent university. After unified regulations for graduate studies are established for Saudi universities, the Graduate College becomes the Deanship of Graduate Studies, while the Deanship of Academic Research is established in accordance with the dictates of the System of Academic Research (1998)

The College of Medicine is established at the Qassim campus, and the Deanship of Community Service and Continuing Education was turned into the College of Applied Studies and Community Service (2000)

The Community College in Riyadh (2001)

The College of Science at Al-Jouf is established, and the College of Engineering is opened at Qassim, which becomes an independent university. Community colleges are approved for Al-Majma’ah, Al-Aflaj, and Al-Qurayyat (2003)

Colleges

Humanities Colleges

Arts

Education

Law and Political Science

Languages

Tourism & Archaeology

Arabic Language Institute

Teaching

Physical Education & Sports

Science Colleges

Engineering

Science

Food and Agricultural Sciences

Computer and Information Sciences

Architecture and Planning

Business Administration

Health Colleges

Medicine

Dentistry

Pharmacy

Applied Medical Sciences

Nursing

Health Science

Prince Sultan College for Emergency Medical Services

Community Colleges

Applied Studies and Community Service

Community College in Al-Riyadh

Female Colleges

Center For Female Scientific and Medical Colleges

Olayasha Center for Girls

King Saud University ranked:

200th in the 2011 QS World University Ranking

Queen's University Belfast

Queen's University Belfast is a public research university in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The university's official title, per its charter, is the Queen's University of Belfast. It is often referred to simply as Queen's, or by the abbreviation QUB. The university was chartered in 1845, and opened in 1849 as "Queen's College, Belfast", but has roots going back to 1810 and the Royal Belfast Academical Institution.

Queen's is a member of the Russell Group of leading research intensive universities, the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the European University Association, Universities Ireland and Universities UK. The university offers academic degrees at various levels and across a broad subject range, with over 300 degree programmes available.

The University also forms the focal point of the Queen's Quarter area of the city, one of Belfast's seven cultural districts.

History

Queen's University Belfast has its roots in the Belfast Academical Institution, which was founded in 1810 and remains as the Royal Belfast Academical Institution. The present university was first chartered as "Queen's College, Belfast" in 1845, when it was associated with the simultaneously founded Queen's College, Cork and Queen's College, Galway as part of the Queen's University of Ireland – founded to encourage higher education for Catholics and Presbyterians, as a counterpart to Trinity College, Dublin, then an Anglican institution. Queen's College, Belfast opened in 1849.Its main building, the Lanyon Building, was designed by the English architect, Sir Charles Lanyon. Some early students at Queen's University Belfast took University of London examinations.

The Irish Universities Act, 1908 dissolved the Royal University of Ireland, which had replaced the Queen's University of Ireland in 1879, and created two separate universities: the current National University of Ireland and Queen's University of Belfast.

Queen's has been led by a distinguished line of Vice-chancellors, including Sir David Keir, Lord Ashby of Brandon, Dr Michael Grant, Sir Arthur Vick, Sir Peter Froggatt, Sir Gordon Beveridge, and Sir George Bain, the current Vice Chancellor is Professor Sir Peter Gregson.

The university's Chancellors have included Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 9th Earl of Shaftesbury, Field Marshal Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, Sir Tyrone Guthrie, Eric Ashby, Baron Ashby and George J. Mitchell.The incumbent is Kamalesh Sharma.

In addition to the main campus not far from the centre of Belfast, the university has two associated university colleges, these being St Mary's and Stranmillis both also located in Belfast. Although offering a range of degree courses, these colleges primarily provide training for those wishing to enter the teaching profession. The university has formal agreements with other colleges in Northern Ireland and operates several outreach schemes to rural areas.

While the university refers to its main site as a campus, the university's buildings are in fact spread over a number of public streets in South Belfast, centring around University Road, University Square and Stranmillis Road, with other departments located further afield.

Faculties and schools

Academics at Queen's are organised into twenty schools across three faculties. Each school operates as a primary management unit of the university and the schools are the focus for education and research for their respective subject areas.

Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Education

School of English

School of History and Anthropology

School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy

School of Modern Languages

School of Law

Queen's University Management School

School of Creative Arts

Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences

School of Biological Sciences

School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

School of Nursing and Midwifery

School of Pharmacy

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology

School of Mathematics and Physics

School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

School of Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering

School of Psychology

School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work

Several institutes are also associated with Queen's. Located close to the main campus is the Institute of Professional Legal Studies at Queen's which offers training to law graduates to enable them to practise as solicitors or barristers in Northern Ireland, England & Wales and the Republic of Ireland.

The Institute of Theology consists of several colleges with a Christian emphasis, including St Mary's (Catholic), Union Theological College (Presbyterian), Belfast Bible College (non-denominational), as well as Baptist and Methodist colleges in Belfast. In all five colleges teach any programmes with a theological emphasis on behalf of the university; the university may confer theology degrees but cannot teach the subject itself.

Queen's University Belfast ranked:

197th in the 2010 QS World University Ranking

193th in the 2011 QS World University Ranking

University of Iowa

The University of Iowa (also known as UI, or simply Iowa) is a public state-supported research university located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. It is the oldest public university in the state. The university is organized into eleven colleges granting undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees. UI is categorized as RU/VH Research University (very high research activity) in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.The university is a group member of the Association of American Universities, the Big Ten Conference, Committee on Institutional Cooperation, and the Universities Research Association. Additionally, UI is considered a Public Ivy according to Howard and Matthew Greene's "The Public Ivies: America's Flagship Public Universities".

The University is home to the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. It is one of the largest university-owned teaching hospitals in the nation. Iowa was the first American institution of higher learning to accept creative work for academic credit, and developed the Master of Fine Arts degree.

History

The University of Iowa was founded February 25, 1847 as Iowa's first public institution of higher learning, only 59 days after Iowa became a state. The legal name for the university is the State University of Iowa (SUI) but this became confusing with Iowa State University (ISU), and the Board of Regents approved using "University of Iowa" (UI) for everyday usage in October 1964.

The first faculty offered instruction at the university beginning in March 1855 to students in the Old Mechanics Building, situated where Seashore Hall is now. In September 1855, there were 124 students, of whom forty-one were women. The 1856–57 catalogue listed nine departments offering Ancient Language, Modern Language, Intellectual philosophy, Moral Philosophy, History, Natural History, Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, and Chemistry. The first President was Amos Dean.

The original campus was composed of the Iowa Old Capitol Building and the 10 acres (40,000 m2) (4.046 hectares) of land on which it stood. Following the placing of the cornerstone July 4, 1840, the building housed the Fifth Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Iowa (December 5, 1842) and then became the first capitol of the State of Iowa (December 28, 1846). Until that date it had been the third capitol of the Territory of Iowa. When the capitol of Iowa was moved to Des Moines in 1857, Old Capitol became the first permanent "home" of the University.

In 1855, Iowa became the first public university in the United States to admit men and women on an equal basis. Additionally, the university was the world's first university to accept creative work in theater, writing, music, and art on an equal basis with academic research.

The university was one of the first institutions in America to grant a law degree to a woman (Mary B. Hickey Wilkinson, 1873), to grant a law degree to an African American (G. Alexander Clark, 1879), and to put an African American on a varsity athletic squad (Frank Holbrook, 1895). The university offered its first doctoral degree in 1898.

The university was the first state-university to officially recognize the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Allied Union (1970).

Iowa established the first law school west of the Mississippi River, and was also the first to use television in education (1932) and pioneered the field of standardized testing. Additionally, Iowa was the first Big Ten institution to promote an African American to an administrative vice president’s position (Dr. Phillip Hubbard, promoted in 1966).

Colleges and Schools

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

School of Art and Art History

School of Music

Tippie College of Business

College of Engineering

College of Pharmacy

College of Education

College of Nursing

Graduate College

College of Law

Carver College of Medicine

College of Dentistry

University of Iowa College of Public Health

University College

The University of Iowa College of Public Health was formed in 1999 when the Department of Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health and the Graduate Program in Hospital and Health Administration were split from the Carver College of Medicine.

Research Institutes

Iowa Institute of Gerontology: The Iowa Institute of Gerontology existed from 1953 until 1971. It was closed in the latter year due to a budget shortfall.

Institute of Agricultural Medicine. The Institute of Agricultural Medicine was established in 1955 with a grant from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation as an institutte to study rural public health issues.It was later renamed to the Institute of Agricultural Medicine and Occupational Health.

University of Iowa ranked:

192th in the 2011 QS World University Ranking

Zhejiang University

Zhejiang University (ZJU; simplified Chinese: 浙江大学; traditional Chinese: 浙江大學; pinyin: Zhèjiāng Dàxué; Wade–Giles: Che-chiang-ta-hsüeh), sometimes referred to as Zheda, is a national university in China. Founded in 1897, Zhejiang University is one of China's oldest institutions of higher education. It is a member of the C9 League.

Zhejiang University is located in the city of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, approximately 112 miles (180 km) southwest of Shanghai. Zhejiang University Library collection contains about 6.9 million volumes, making it one of the largest academic libraries in the country.

History

Qing Dynasty

In 1897, Lin Qi (simplified Chinese: 林启; traditional Chinese: 林啓; pinyin: Lín Qǐ; Wade–Giles: Lin Ch'i), the mayor of Hangzhou, established "Qiushi Academy" (simplified Chinese: 求是书院; traditional Chinese: 求是書院; pinyin: Qíushì Shūyuàn; Wade–Giles: Ch'iu-shih-shu-yüan). Lin studied the western higher education system and applied it to Qiushi Academy, which would become one of the earliest new schools in modern China history. 1902, Qiushi Academy was renamed as Zhejiang Academy (浙江大學堂/浙江大学堂). 1903, its name was changed to Zhejiang Advanced College， established by Hongcheng's wife, panpan. The "Yuying Academy" was also one of the Zhejiang University's early roots. Yuying Academy was established in 1902 with its original name "Yuying Xuetang" (Xuetang means school or college), later "Yuying Yishu" (Yishu means public school), and then the academy. 1911, Yuying Academy was modified to Zhijiang Xutang, and moved to the Qinwang Hill (秦望山), outside of Hangzhou.

1912, the Zhejiang Medical School was established, later it developed to the Zhejiang Provincial Medical College. This college became the medical college of Zhejiang University.

1927, some schools and colleges (e.g. industrial and agricultural colleges/schools) were merged into the Qiushi Academy. Then the name of the enlarged school was changed into "National Third Sun Zhongshan University" (or, National Third Sun Yat-sen University), for memorial of Sun Yat-sen. April 1, 1928, it was called "Chekiang University" (or Pinyin: Zhejiang University), in the same year, "National" was added and it became "National Chekiang University" (simplified Chinese: 国立浙江大学; traditional Chinese: 國立浙江大學; pinyin: Guólì Zhèjiāng Dàxué).

1937, the Second Sino-Japanese War broke out. Due to the attack from Japanese army, the university had to move out of Hangzhou to Guizhou until 1946, after the war ended.

Reputed as "Cambridge of the East" by Joseph Needham (twice visited ZJU in 1944) in China's modern history of higher education, Zhejiang University's was consistently ranked as among top 3 in the nation during that time.

During this period, the National Zhejiang University was praised as one of the Four most Prominent Universities in the Republic China (Chinese: 民国四大名校), along with National Central University, National Southwestern Associated University and National Wuhan University.

Zhejiang University was split up into a number of single-discipline colleges during the 1952 readjustment of China's Tertiary Education System. Its schools of arts and sciences either went to former Hangzhou University or jointed with Fudan University. Its medical and pharmaceutical schools formed Zhejiang Medical University. Its agricultural and horticultural schools went to establish Zhejiang Agricultural University.

1952~1953, Its chemical engineering departments and some the other technological parts went to former Hangzhou Chemical Engineering School (now Zhejiang University of Technology, ZJUT). And the dean Li Shouheng, who was one of the main founders of China's modern chemical engineering, was pointed to be the first president of ZJUT.

In 1998, with the approval of the State Council, the new Zhejiang University was established as a combination of four major universities that had grown up in Hangzhou over the previous half-century, namely Zhejiang University, Hangzhou University, Zhejiang Agricultural University and Zhejiang Medical University.

On September 21, 2006, Chinese billionaires Duan Yongping (Zhejiang University alumnus) and Ding Lei (Zhejiang native) donated together a one-time endowment of 40 million US dollars to Zhejiang University. 30 million USD was from Duan with 10 million from Ding.

Colleges and schools

Chu Kochen Honors College

College of Economics

Guanghua Law School

College of Education

College of Humanities

School of International Studies

College of Science

College of Life Sciences

College of Mechanical and Energy Engineering

College of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering

College of Electrical Engineering

College of Information Science and Electrical Engineering

College of Media and International Cultures

School of Aeronautics and Astronautics

College of Computer Science

College of Software Technology

College of Civil Engineering and Architecture

College of Biosystem Engineering and Food Science

College of Environmental and Resource Sciences

College of Biomedical Engineering and Instrument Science

College of Agriculture and Biotechnology

College of Animal Sciences

School of Medicine

College of Pharmaceutical Sciences

School of Management

College of Public Administration

Zhejiang University Ranked:

191th in the 2011 QS World University Ranking