Henan University

Henan University is a provincial public university based in Kaifeng, Henan, China, with a second campus in Zhengzhou. It was founded in 1912 on the site of the Qing dynasty imperial examination hall, which makes it one of the oldest universities in the country.河南大学是一所位于中国河南省开封市的省属公办综合性大学，并在郑州设有校区。学校创办于1912年，校址设在清代河南贡院旧址，是中国办学历史最悠久的高校之一。

It teaches across twelve disciplinary categories in more than thirty schools and colleges, holds Double First-Class status in biology, and enrols about 50,000 full-time students with more than 4,000 staff.学校学科覆盖十二个门类，设有三十多个学院，生物学入选国家双一流建设学科，全日制在校生约五万人，教职工四千余人，是河南省重点建设的综合性大学。

Henan University sits in the 1201-1400 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027 and in the 1001-1200 band of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027. It is placed 721st by U.S. News and in the 301-400 band of the Academic Ranking of World Universities.在2027年QS世界大学排名中，河南大学位列第1201-1400位（并列区间），在2027年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中位列第1001-1200位。美国新闻与世界报道将其排在第721位，软科世界大学学术排名将其列入第301-400位。

History

• In September 1912 the provincial government opened the Henan Preparatory School for Study in Europe and America on the grounds of the former Qing examination hall in Kaifeng, appointing the educator Lin Boxiang as its first president.1912年9月，河南省在开封清代贡院旧址创办河南留学欧美预备学校，聘请教育家林伯襄出任首任校长。学校以英文和西学课程为主，与当时的清华学校、南洋公学并称三大留学预备学校，为河南新式教育开了先河。
• In 1923 the preparatory school was upgraded to Zhongzhou University with funds set aside by the warlord Feng Yuxiang, and Zhang Honglie, the last head of the preparatory school, became president of the new institution.1923年，在冯玉祥拨出的专款支持下，河南留学欧美预备学校升格为中州大学，由原预备学校校长张鸿烈出任校长。学校增设本科，开始招收文、理、法三科学生，成为当时河南唯一的新型综合大学。
• Feng Youlan, back from Columbia University, took charge of the liberal arts division, while Cao Liqing directed the science division, and the two men set the pattern of a comprehensive university in the provincial capital.同年，刚从美国哥伦比亚大学归来的冯友兰担任文科主任，留美化学家曹理卿担任理科主任。两人延聘教师、购置仪器，共同奠定了这所省城综合大学的学科格局，也使开封一度成为北方重要的学术城市。
• The university was reorganised in 1927 as a Zhongshan university under the provincial government, absorbing the provincial law and agriculture colleges, and in 1930 it took the name Provincial Henan University.1927年，学校与省立法政、农业专科学校合并，改组为省立中山大学，1930年改称省立河南大学。此后数年院系不断扩充，在校生规模居全省之首，抗战前夕已设有文、理、法、农、医五个学院。
• Construction of the Grand Auditorium began in 1931 and finished in 1934. The hall seated about 3,000 people, used steel roof trusses imported for the project, and became the ceremonial centre of the campus.大礼堂于1931年动工、1934年落成，可容纳约三千人，屋顶采用当时从德国进口的钢桁架，舞台与门廊模仿西方古典样式。它很快成为全校集会、演剧与典礼的中心，也是开封城内最大的室内场地。
• After full-scale war with Japan broke out in 1937 the university left Kaifeng and taught in exile, first in Zhenping, then in Songxian and Xichuan in the hills of western Henan.1937年全面抗战爆发后，学校被迫离开开封，先后迁往镇平、嵩县和淅川等地。师生在豫西山区的祠堂、庙宇和临时搭建的草房中上课，图书仪器随队辗转，办学条件极为艰苦却未曾停课。
• In 1942 the institution was elevated to National Henan University, and the calligrapher Yu Youren wrote the characters for its name board, a mark of its standing in wartime China.1942年，学校升格为国立河南大学，书法家于右任为学校题写校名。升格意味着经费由国库拨付，院系得以扩充，学校在抗战时期的全国高教格局中获得了更重要的位置。
• When the Japanese offensive threatened western Henan in 1944 the university moved again to Baoji in Shaanxi, and it returned to Kaifeng in 1945 to repair the occupied campus.1944年日军进攻豫西，学校再次迁往陕西宝鸡，借当地房舍坚持教学。1945年抗战胜利后师生分批返回开封，修复被占用的校舍、整理散失的图书，逐步恢复正常的教学秩序。
• In 1948, as fighting reached Kaifeng, part of the faculty and student body moved south to Suzhou, where classes continued in borrowed buildings until the end of the civil war.1948年战火逼近开封，部分师生南迁苏州，借用当地会馆和民房继续上课。这批人在江南坚持了数月，直到内战结束才陆续返回河南，成为学校历史上一次特殊的迁徙。
• Other staff and students remained in Henan and helped to found Zhongyuan University in 1948, with Chen Yi, later a marshal, as its first president.留在河南的另一批师生参与了1948年中原大学的创建，由后来成为元帅的陈毅出任首任校长。这批人后来分布到中南地区的高校和机关，成为新中国高等教育与行政管理的重要力量。
• The Kaifeng campus was reorganised in 1949 as the Henan People's Revolutionary University, and in 1950 the name Henan University was restored, with Wu Zhifu as president.1949年开封校部改组为河南人民革命大学，1950年恢复河南大学校名，由时任河南省人民政府主席吴芝圃兼任校长。学校重新设系招生，并接收了部分南下返乡的青年学生。
• The nationwide departmental readjustment of 1952 removed the university's agriculture, medicine and finance faculties, which were turned into separate specialised colleges.1952年全国院系调整中，学校的农学院、医学院和财经系被调出，分别组建为独立的专门院校，水利系则并入武汉的水利学院。经过这次调整，学校由综合性大学转为以师范为主的院校。
• After merging with Pingyuan Normal College in 1953 it became Henan Normal College, and in 1956 the Kaifeng campus took the name Kaifeng Normal College, training teachers for the province.1953年学校与平原师范学院合并，改称河南师范学院，1956年开封校部定名开封师范学院，主要承担全省中学师资的培养任务。这一时期毕业生大批走向县乡中学，缓解了河南教师严重短缺的局面。
• A Xinyang branch opened in 1975 to train teachers for the south of the province, and the branch later became an independent institution, today's Xinyang Normal University.1975年学校在信阳设立分院，为豫南地区培养中学教师，该分院后来独立办学，发展成为今天的信阳师范大学。类似的校外办学点在省内还有多处，反映出当时高等教育向基层延伸的政策取向。
• The college was renamed Henan Normal University in 1979 and recovered its historic name, Henan University, in 1984, reopening departments that had been closed or transferred.1979年学校更名为河南师范大学，1984年恢复河南大学校名，并陆续重建此前被撤销或调出的院系。校名的恢复不仅是名称的变化，也意味着学校重新确立了综合性大学的办学方向。
• In 2000 the Kaifeng Medical College and the Kaifeng Normal College were merged into Henan University, restoring its medical and teacher-training programmes and enlarging its student body.2000年，开封医学高等专科学校与开封师范高等专科学校并入河南大学，学校恢复了医学与师范教育，办学规模明显扩大。合并后在校生人数迅速增长，校园空间开始显得紧张。
• A 2008 agreement between the provincial government and the Ministry of Education made Henan University a province-ministry jointly built university, a status that brought extra funding.2008年，河南省人民政府与教育部签署共建协议，河南大学成为省部共建高校，由此获得更多的办学经费与政策支持。学校随后启动人才强校计划，引进了一批海内外博士充实教师队伍。
• The university marked its centenary in September 2012 with a ceremony on the Minglun campus, a new museum exhibition and a series of academic conferences.2012年9月，学校在明伦校区举行建校一百周年庆典，并举办校史展览和一系列学术会议，海内外校友回到开封参加。校庆期间学校重申了建设高水平综合性大学的目标。
• In 2016 the university re-established its medical school and joined the 111 Plan, and in September 2017 it entered the Double First-Class programme with biology as its designated discipline.2016年学校重建医学院并入选111计划，2017年9月又进入国家双一流建设行列，生物学被列为重点建设学科。短短两年间，学校在学科布局与政策资源上同时取得突破。
• The Zhengzhou campus beside Longzihu opened on 25 September 2021, and in 2022 the university celebrated its 110th anniversary and moved its registered address to the provincial capital while keeping Kaifeng as its teaching base.2021年9月25日，位于郑州龙子湖的校区正式启用，学校在开封办学一百多年后终于在省会拥有新的办学空间。2022年学校庆祝建校一百一十周年，并把注册地迁至郑州，同时保留开封校区作为本科教学基地。
• On 2 May 2024 a fire broke out while the Grand Auditorium was under renovation and destroyed its roof and interior, a loss that prompted a national debate on the protection of modern heritage.2024年5月2日，正在修缮的大礼堂发生火灾，屋顶和内部结构严重损毁，所幸没有人员伤亡。这场火灾引发全国对近代建筑遗产保护的讨论，学校随后启动调查与修复方案的论证。

Academics

• Henan University is organised into more than thirty schools and colleges covering twelve disciplinary categories, from literature and history to engineering, medicine, law, economics and the arts.河南大学设有三十多个学院，学科覆盖文、史、哲、经、管、法、教育、理、工、农、医、艺术等十二个门类。学校以综合性见长，既保留师范传统，又在理工与医学领域持续扩展。
• It offers about one hundred undergraduate programmes and admits students through the national gaokao, drawing heavily from Henan, a province with more than a million examination candidates each year.学校开设约一百个本科专业，主要通过全国高考招生，生源以河南本省为主。河南每年有上百万考生参加高考，优质生源的激烈竞争也抬高了学校的录取分数线。
• Biology is the university's Double First-Class discipline, supported by work on crop stress tolerance, cotton genetics and the ecology of the Yellow River floodplain.生物学是学校的一流建设学科，研究重点包括作物抗逆、棉花遗传育种以及黄河下游平原的生态修复。相关团队长期在黄河流域开展野外调查，为区域农业与生态治理提供数据支撑。
• The State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, run jointly with the Cotton Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, opened in 2011 and works on cotton genomics and breeding.棉花生物学国家重点实验室由中国农业科学院棉花研究所与学校共建，2011年获批，主要研究棉花基因组学与新品种选育。实验室培育的多个棉花品种在黄淮海棉区推广种植，产生了显著的经济效益。
• The Yellow River Civilization and Sustainable Development Research Centre is a key research institute of the Ministry of Education and one of the university's best-known humanities units.黄河文明与可持续发展研究中心是教育部人文社会科学重点研究基地，也是学校最具代表性的人文社科研究机构之一。中心汇集历史、地理、考古与经济学者，围绕黄河文明的形成与区域发展展开长期研究。
• The Key Laboratory of Special Functional Materials of the Ministry of Education works on nanomaterials, lubricating materials and energy storage, and its patents have been licensed to industry.特种功能材料教育部重点实验室研究纳米材料、润滑材料与储能技术，一批专利已转让给企业实现产业化。实验室还与地方政府共建研究院，推动科技成果在河南本地落地。
• Engineering subjects, including civil engineering, environmental science and computer science, have grown quickly since the 1990s and now account for a large share of research funding.土木工程、环境科学与计算机等工科专业自二十世纪九十年代以来发展迅速，如今在学校科研经费中占有很大比重。学校依托郑州校区布局新工科，与省内制造企业共建实习基地。
• The School of Medicine, re-established in 2016, teaches clinical medicine and pharmacy with the Henan Provincial People's Hospital and the university's own Huaihe and First Affiliated hospitals.2016年重建的医学院与河南省人民医院以及学校附属淮河医院、第一附属医院合作，承担临床医学与药学人才的培养。医学院强调早临床、多临床，学生在附属医院完成大部分床边教学与实习。
• Chinese language and literature, history and education remain the strongest humanities subjects, and the journal Historical Monthly, edited at the university, is read across the country.中国语言文学、历史学与教育学是学校传统优势学科，由学校编辑的《史学月刊》在全国史学界具有广泛影响。这些学科承担了多项国家社科基金重大项目，也是学校博士点最集中的领域。
• Economists and jurists at the university advise the provincial government through the Central Plains Development Research Institute and several policy research centres.学校的经济学与法学研究者通过中原发展研究院等智库平台，为河南省政府提供区域发展与法治建设方面的咨询。研究院定期发布中原经济区发展报告，成为观察河南经济的重要参考。
• The arts faculty trains musicians, painters and designers, and its concert hall and galleries host public performances that are open to the city.艺术学院培养音乐、美术与设计人才，学院的音乐厅和展厅常年举办面向市民的公开演出与展览。河南地方戏曲与民间美术也是教学与研究的重点，学生常赴省内各地采风。
• Henan University runs a Confucius Institute with the University of Akron in the United States, and it hosts international students from more than sixty countries.学校与美国阿克伦大学合作共建孔子学院，并接收来自六十多个国家的国际学生，近年英文授课项目有所增加。国际教育学院负责语言培训与跨文化课程，帮助留学生适应在开封的学习生活。
• The library system holds more than five million volumes and subscribes to major Chinese and foreign databases, with separate buildings on the Minglun and Jinming campuses.图书馆系统藏书五百余万册，订购中外文数据库，在明伦与金明两个校区分别设有馆舍。古籍部收藏有相当数量的方志与线装书，为中原地方史研究提供了重要资料。
• Henan University Press issues academic monographs and textbooks, while the university's journal publishes research in natural sciences, humanities and social sciences.河南大学出版社出版学术专著与教材，学校学报则分自然科学版与社会科学版，刊发校内外研究成果。出版社依托中原文化资源，推出了多套地方史与古都研究丛书。
• The graduate school administers more than twenty doctoral programmes and more than forty master's programmes, including professional degrees in education, engineering and clinical medicine.研究生院负责二十多个博士学位授权点和四十多个硕士学位授权点，其中包括教育、工程与临床医学等专业学位。近年专业学位研究生比例上升，培养重心逐步向应用型人才倾斜。
• Annual research funding has risen steadily, and the university has won awards from the National Natural Science Foundation and the National Social Science Fund, including major projects on Yellow River history.学校年度科研经费稳步增长，在国家自然科学基金与国家社科基金评审中屡获立项，其中包括黄河历史研究的重大项目。科研管理部门通过校内培育基金扶持青年学者，提高了国家级项目的申报成功率。
• Under the 111 Plan the university brings foreign scholars to teach and supervise research in biology and materials, and it has built joint laboratories with universities in Europe and North America.依托111计划，学校引进海外学者参与生物学与材料学的教学和科研，并与欧洲、北美高校共建联合实验室。这些合作带来了新的课程与研究范式，也为青年教师提供了出国访学的渠道。

Campus

• The university occupies three campuses, Minglun and Jinming in Kaifeng and Longzihu in Zhengzhou, with a combined area of about 5,500 mu, roughly 370 hectares.学校拥有明伦、金明与郑州龙子湖三个校区，总占地约五千五百亩，折合约三百七十公顷。三个校区功能各有侧重，老校区以人文社科为主，新校区承担理工、医学与部分本科教学。
• Minglun, the original campus, preserves the north-south axis of the Qing examination hall, with the 1936 south gate opening onto a lawn that leads to the auditorium.明伦校区是学校的老校区，保留了清代贡院的南北中轴线，1936年建成的南大门正对大草坪，尽头便是大礼堂。轴线两侧分布着六号楼、七号楼等近代建筑，整体格局至今未被打破。
• The Grand Auditorium of 1934 was for ninety years the largest hall in Kaifeng, used for ceremonies, concerts and films, and its loss in the 2024 fire left a gap in the campus.1934年落成的大礼堂在九十年间一直是开封最大的礼堂，用于典礼、音乐会和电影放映，2024年火灾后校园中心留下难以弥补的空缺。校友们常在网络上分享在这里参加开学典礼与毕业典礼的旧照片。
• Building No. 6, completed in 1919, is the oldest surviving classroom block, a brick building in a hybrid Chinese-Western style that now houses university offices and exhibition space.1919年建成的六号楼是现存最老的教学楼，砖木结构、中西合璧，如今用作学校办公与校史展览的场所。楼前的石阶与拱廊是毕业生合影的常用背景，也是校园历史记忆的一部分。
• The historic buildings of the Minglun campus were listed as a national key cultural relic protection unit in 2006, which constrains renovation but protects the ensemble from demolition.明伦校区近代建筑群于2006年被列为全国重点文物保护单位，这一身份限制了改造方式，也使整组建筑免于被拆除。学校在修缮时必须履行报批程序，材料与工艺也需遵循文物建筑的要求。
• The campus lies beside the Iron Pagoda, a thirteen-storey brick pagoda completed in 1049 during the Northern Song, whose silhouette appears in many photographs of the university.校园紧邻铁塔，这座十三层砖塔建于北宋皇祐元年（1049年），塔影常出现在学校的照片与明信片上。铁塔所在的公园也是学生晨跑与散步的去处，春天园内牡丹与海棠盛开。
• The Jinming campus west of the old city was developed from the early 2000s, with modern lecture halls, laboratories, student housing and a lake laid out on flat farmland.金明校区位于开封老城以西，自本世纪初陆续建成，教学楼、实验室、学生公寓与人工湖布置在平坦的农田之上。新校区的建筑尺度较大，道路宽阔，适合骑车往返于宿舍与教室之间。
• The Longzihu campus in Zhengdong New District opened in 2021 with room for about 10,000 students, and it is linked to the city centre by metro line one.龙子湖校区位于郑东新区，2021年启用，可容纳约一万名学生，并通过地铁一号线与郑州市区相连。校区周边聚集了多所高校与科研机构，形成了郑州东部的高校园区。
• Kaifeng, a former Northern Song capital, surrounds the old campus with a Song dynasty city wall, lakes and night markets, while the Yellow River runs about ten kilometres to the north.开封曾是北宋都城，老校区周边有宋代城墙、湖泊与夜市，黄河在城北约十公里处流过。古城的中轴线、书店街与胡同肌理，为学生提供了课堂之外的历史与民俗教材。
• The Minglun campus is known for its tall pagoda trees and flower beds, and in autumn the ginkgo avenue along the east wall turns yellow and draws visitors.明伦校区以高大的国槐与花坛著称，秋天东墙边的银杏道一片金黄，常吸引市民前来拍照。校园里还保留着上世纪修建的凉亭与水塔，与近代建筑一起构成独特的天际线。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 Henan University is placed in the 1201-1400 band, a joint interval shared by a large group of universities rather than a single position.在2027年QS世界大学排名中，河南大学位于第1201-1400位区间，这是一个由多所高校共享的并列区间，而非单一的名次。学校在该榜单中的位置与其庞大的办学规模和相对薄弱的国际化指标有关。
• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 place it in the 1001-1200 band, alongside a number of other large provincial universities in China.2027年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将学校列入第1001-1200位区间，与中国其他若干大型省属高校处于同一档次。该校在教学质量与科研产出指标上表现平稳，但国际视野指标仍有提升空间。
• U.S. News and World Report ranks it 721st in its 2026-2027 global universities list, a position helped by its large output of papers in chemistry and materials science.美国新闻与世界报道2026-2027年全球大学榜单将学校排在第721位，化学与材料科学领域的大量论文产出是重要加分项。这一名次在中国内地高校中处于中上游，明显高于其在QS榜单中的位置。
• The Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026 places it in the 301-400 band, one of the university's strongest showings in an international table.2026年软科世界大学学术排名将学校列入第301-400位区间，这是学校在国际排行榜上表现最好的项目之一。软科排名侧重高被引学者、顶级论文与诺贝尔奖等硬指标，学校因此受益于材料与化学学科的积累。
• The CWTS Leiden Ranking, which measures publication impact rather than reputation, placed the university 391st in its most recent edition.莱顿大学科学技术研究中心发布的莱顿排名侧重论文影响力而非声誉，学校在最近一版榜单中位列第391位。这一结果说明学校在合作论文与高被引论文方面已具备一定国际竞争力。
• Its Double First-Class status, confirmed again in 2022, makes it one of only two universities in Henan with that designation, the other being Zhengzhou University.学校在2022年再次入选双一流建设名单，是河南省仅有的两所双一流高校之一，另一所为郑州大学。这一身份使学校在省级财政支持与高层次人才引进方面获得了长期保障。
• More than ten fields, including chemistry, materials science, engineering, clinical medicine and plant and animal science, appear in the top one percent of the Essential Science Indicators.化学、材料科学、工程学、临床医学、植物与动物科学等十余个学科进入基本科学指标数据库的前百分之一。学科面较宽是学校的特点，但也存在单个学科峰度不高、顶尖成果偏少的问题。
• In the humanities the university's reputation rests on Song and Ming history, modern Chinese literature and education research, fields in which it has trained generations of Henan teachers.在人文社科领域，学校的声誉主要建立在宋明史、中国现代文学与教育学研究之上，为河南培养了几代中小学教师。中原文化研究、甲骨学与黄河文献整理也是校内具有延续性的学术方向。
• Within Henan it is regarded as the leading university for teacher education and humanities, and its graduates dominate the staff rooms of the province's secondary schools.在河南省内，学校被视为师范教育与人文社科领域的龙头，毕业生遍布全省中学的教研室与课堂。省会郑州的多所重点中学校长与骨干教师出自这里，形成了稳定的校友网络。
• Its international rank remains modest for an institution of its size, and the shift of resources to Zhengzhou has raised questions about the future of the Kaifeng campuses.与其庞大的办学规模相比，学校的国际排名仍显平淡，而办学重心向郑州转移也引发了人们对开封校区未来的讨论。如何在扩张与内涵建设之间取得平衡，是学校当前面临的主要课题。

Student life

• The motto, 'Illustrious virtue and a renewed people, resting only in the highest good', is drawn from the Great Learning and is carved on the south gate of the Minglun campus.校训“明德新民，止于至善”出自《大学》，镌刻在明伦校区南大门上，也是新生入学教育的第一课。学校把校训写入学生手册，并要求新生在开学典礼上集体诵读。
• The school song dates from the 1930s and is sung at convocations and graduation ceremonies, with lyrics that mention the old capital and the Yellow River.校歌创作于二十世纪三十年代，在开学典礼和毕业典礼上集体演唱，歌词提到开封古城与黄河。许多校友离校多年后仍能完整唱出，校歌也成为校庆活动中最具感染力的环节。
• More than two hundred student societies cover debate, drama, calligraphy, robotics, volunteering and traditional music, and they recruit new members during a fair each September.学校有两百多个学生社团，涵盖辩论、话剧、书法、机器人、志愿服务与民乐，每年九月开学后统一招新。社团由校团委管理，表现突出的团队可以申请活动经费与专用场地。
• The annual sports meet fills the track stadium in spring, and student volunteers staff the Zhengzhou-Kaifeng International Marathon, which runs along the road between the two campuses.每年春季的校运动会占满田径场，学生志愿者还为郑开国际马拉松提供服务，这项赛事沿着连接郑州与开封的大道举行。长跑、篮球与太极拳是校园里参与度最高的运动项目。
• Most undergraduates live in rooms shared by four to six students, with canteens on each campus serving inexpensive Henan food such as braised noodles and steamed buns.多数本科生住在四至六人间的宿舍，各校区食堂供应烩面、馒头等价格实惠的河南饭菜。宿舍实行门禁与熄灯制度，低年级学生通常需要参加早晚自习与宿舍卫生检查。
• The night markets of Kaifeng, especially around Gulou, are a short bus ride from Minglun and give students a taste of the city's soup dumplings and grilled food.开封夜市尤其鼓楼一带离明伦校区只有几站公交，学生常去那里吃灌汤包和烧烤，感受古城夜生活。夜市也是不少学生兼职的场所，旺季时摊位一直营业到凌晨。
• Each October the city's chrysanthemum festival fills parks and streets with flowers, and university students volunteer as guides and interpreters for the visitors it brings.每年十月开封举办菊花文化节，公园与街道摆满菊花，学生志愿者为游客提供引导和讲解服务。菊花是开封市花，花会期间校园里也会布置花坛与摄影展。
• Preparation for the postgraduate entrance examination dominates the final year for many students, and the libraries stay open late in the months before the December test.考研是许多学生大四生活的重心，十二月考试前的几个月，图书馆和自习室常常开放到深夜。学校开设考研辅导讲座，并在部分教学楼设置通宵自习区，座位需要提前占。
• In November 2024 thousands of Zhengzhou students cycled the fifty kilometres to Kaifeng at night, a spontaneous event that briefly overwhelmed the old city's streets.2024年11月，郑州数万名学生夜间骑行五十公里到开封，这场自发的活动一度让古城街道不堪重负。河南大学的学生在路边为骑行者提供热水，校园也成为这场青年亚文化事件的终点之一。
• International students, most of them from Asia and Africa, study Chinese language and degree courses and join the same dormitory and sports activities as their Chinese classmates.国际学生多来自亚洲和非洲，学习汉语与学位课程，与中国同学住在同一片宿舍区并一起参加体育活动。学校为留学生开设中国文化体验课程，春节包饺子与中秋赏月是固定活动。

Notable people

• Feng Youlan, the historian of Chinese philosophy, taught at Zhongzhou University in the 1920s and headed its liberal arts division before moving to Tsinghua and Peking University.冯友兰是中国哲学史家，二十世纪二十年代在中州大学任教并担任文科主任，后来执教于清华大学与北京大学。他的两卷本《中国哲学史》长期作为大学教材，影响了几代读者。
• Cao Liqing, a chemist trained in the United States, was the first head of the science division at Zhongzhou University and helped to equip its laboratories.曹理卿曾留学美国学习化学，是中州大学首任理科主任，为学校实验室的建设购置了第一批仪器。他主张理科学生必须动手实验，这一理念后来成为学校理工科教学的传统。
• Ji Wenfu, a historian of Chinese thought, served as president in the early 1950s and later became the first president of Zhengzhou University.嵇文甫是思想史家，二十世纪五十年代初担任河南大学校长，后来出任郑州大学首任校长。他在船山学与明清思想史领域著述丰富，是河南现代学术的重要奠基者之一。
• Ren Fangqiu taught modern Chinese literature at the university for half a century and built one of the country's strongest research collections in that field.任访秋在学校执教中国近代文学半个世纪，建立了国内颇具影响的研究资料与学术传统。他培养的研究生多已成为河南高校文学学科的骨干，其藏书后来捐给了学校图书馆。
• Zhu Shaohou, a historian of the Qin and Han dynasties, taught at the university for decades and trained many of the province's history teachers.朱绍侯是秦汉史专家，在河南大学任教数十年，培养了河南省大批历史学教师与研究人员。他主编的《中国古代史》教材被多所高校采用，至今仍在修订再版。
• Wang Liqun, a professor of ancient Chinese literature, became a national figure through his lectures on the Han dynasty on China Central Television's Lecture Room programme.王立群是古代文学教授，因在中央电视台《百家讲坛》讲述汉代人物而为全国观众熟知。他的通俗读物把学术研究转化为大众叙事，也让河南大学的文科形象进入公众视野。
• Zhang Suojiang, who studied chemistry at the university and graduated in 1986, is a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and became president of Henan University in 2022.张锁江1986年毕业于河南大学化学系，是中国科学院院士，2022年出任河南大学校长。他长期从事绿色化工与离子液体研究，主张把科研成果与河南的产业转型结合起来。
• Yao Xueyin studied in the law preparatory programme from 1929 until his expulsion in 1931 and later wrote the historical novel Li Zicheng, which won the Mao Dun Prize.姚雪垠1929年进入法学院预科，1931年被开除，后来创作长篇历史小说《李自成》，并获得茅盾文学奖。他在开封求学期间开始发表小说，底层经历成为其日后写作的重要素材。
• Zhao Jiuzhang, who entered the preparatory school in 1922, became a meteorologist and a leader of China's satellite programme, and is honoured as a founder of its space science.赵九章1922年考入河南留学欧美预备学校，后来成为气象学家和中国卫星事业的奠基人之一。他参与了中国第一颗人造卫星的早期论证，被誉为两弹一星元勋中空间科学的代表。
• Yang Tingbao, one of China's leading twentieth-century architects, studied at the preparatory school before going on to Tsinghua University and the University of Pennsylvania.杨廷宝是中国二十世纪重要建筑学家，早年在河南留学欧美预备学校就读，后赴清华学校与美国宾夕法尼亚大学深造。他设计了南京中山陵音乐台等建筑，被视为中国近代建筑教育的开拓者之一。