Zhejiang University

Zhejiang University, commonly shortened to Zheda, is a comprehensive research university based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, and directly administered by the Ministry of Education of China. Designated a Class A Double First-Class university and formerly covered by Project 985 and Project 211, it is a member of the C9 League and of the five leading universities of East China, and it operates the Zijingang, Yuquan, Xixi, Huajiachi, Zhijiang, Zhoushan and Haining campuses浙江大学（Zhejiang University），简称「浙大」，校部设于浙江省杭州市，是中华人民共和国教育部直属的综合型、研究型、创新型全国重点大学，位列国家「双一流」建设高校（A 类）与原「985 工程」「211 工程」重点建设大学，是九校联盟（C9）与华东五校成员，现辖紫金港、玉泉、西溪、华家池、之江、舟山、海宁等 7 个校区。

Its origins lie in the Qiushi Academy founded in 1897 by the Hangzhou prefect Lin Qi, it took the name National Chekiang University in 1928 and was reconstituted as a comprehensive university in 1998 by absorbing the former Hangzhou, agricultural and medical universities of Zhejiang. OpenAlex credits the institution with more than 425,000 scholarly works drawing over 34.8 million citations学校前溯 1897 年杭州知府林启创办的求是书院，1928 年定名国立浙江大学，1998 年与原杭州大学、原浙江农业大学、原浙江医科大学合并为新的综合大学；据 OpenAlex 统计，学校累计发表学术成果 42.5 万余篇、总被引逾 3486 万次。

History

• In May 1897 Lin Qi, prefect of Hangzhou, established the Qiushi Academy on the site of the Puci Temple with the support of the provincial governor Liao Shoufeng, the first modern institution of higher learning founded by Chinese in Zhejiang, its teaching placed under E. L. Mattox, an American missionary of the neighbouring Hangchow College1897 年 5 月（清光绪二十三年），杭州知府林启在浙江巡抚廖寿丰支持下于杭州普慈寺旧址创设求是书院，为浙江省国人自办新式高等教育之始，初创时以同城育英书院的美国教师王令赓总掌教席。

• The academy anticipated the provincial sending of students to Japan in 1898, a first among Chinese provinces1898 年求是书院率先选送学生东渡日本留学，为各省派赴日本游学之首倡。

• Under the late Qing educational reforms the academy was renamed in turn Qiushi University, Chekiang University and Chekiang Higher Institute between 1901 and 1904, functioning as a university preparatory school1901 年至 1904 年，因应清末学制改革，书院先后改称求是大学堂、浙江大学堂与浙江高等学堂，行大学预科之制。

• Amid the institutional transition after the 1911 revolution the institute ceased admissions in 1912 and closed when its final class graduated in 1914, and warlord fighting frustrated repeated attempts to restore a university辛亥革命后新旧学制交替，浙江高等学堂 1912 年停止招生，1914 年最后一届学生毕业后停闭，此后十余年重设大学之议因军阀混战而无果。

• After the Northern Expedition reached Hangzhou in July 1927, Qiushi alumni and teachers led by Jiang Menglin and Shao Peizi re-founded a university on the academy site as National Third Chungshan University, with the provincial industrial college as its faculty of engineering and the provincial agricultural college as its faculty of agriculture and labour1927 年 7 月北伐军进驻杭州后整顿高教，蒋梦麟、邵裴子、陈大齐、郑晓沧等一批求是书院师生在原址筹建国立第三中山大学，以浙江公立工业专门学校为工学院、浙江公立农业专门学校为劳农学院。

• It became Chekiang University in April 1928 and National Chekiang University that July under its first president Jiang Menglin, and the postal romanisation of Zhejiang in the English name persisted until the mid-1980s1928 年 4 月改称浙江大学，7 月加冠「国立」二字定名国立浙江大学，蒋梦麟出任首任校长；校名的邮政式拼音浙江一直沿用至 20 世纪 80 年代。

• The university district system was abolished in 1929, transferring the university to provincial control under Shao Peizi, who resigned when the province withdrew funding in 1932, his successor Cheng Tien-fong streamlined the administration and secured central subsidies, while Kuo Jen-yuan's military discipline from 1933 culminated in his expulsion by the students in 19351929 年大学区制废除，校政改隶浙江省教育厅，邵裴子接任校长；1932 年省费中断邵氏去职，程天放继任后精简机构并争取到中央拨款；1933 年郭任远以军事化管理治校，1935 年因军警入校逮捕抗议学生酿成「驱郭风潮」而去职。

• The meteorologist Chu Kochen served as president from April 1936 to May 1949, gathering scholars of the Critical Review group and of the Science Society of China and raising the university into the first rank of Chinese academia1936 年 4 月，气象学家竺可桢出任校长直至 1949 年 5 月，先后延揽学衡派与中国科学社的一批学者到校，使浙大跻身国内学术重镇。

• War forced the university to move repeatedly after 1937, through Jiande, northern Jiangxi and Yishan in Guangxi to Zunyi and Meitan in Guizhou by November 1939, the university escorting the Wenlan Pavilion copy of the Complete Library of the Four Treasuries, adding a teachers college at Yishan and adopting the motto Qiushi at a council meeting there in 1938, years that prompted Joseph Needham, visiting in 1944, to salute the university as a Cambridge of the East1937 年抗战全面爆发后学校屡迁，经建德、江西吉安与泰和、广西宜山，1939 年 11 月迁至贵州遵义、湄潭，途中护送文澜阁本《四库全书》西移，并在宜山增设师范学院、1938 年在校务会议上确立「求是」校训；1944 年到访的英国生物化学家李约瑟盛赞浙大为「东方剑桥」。

• The Guizhou colleges returned to Hangzhou in 1946 and a medical school was added the same year, in 1947 the university celebrated its twentieth anniversary together with the academy's fiftieth, the historian Chang Ch'i-yun anchoring the institutional record in 1897, a dating the official education yearbook adopted in 19481946 年 5 月遵义总校启程返杭复课，同年奉教育部令增设医学院；1947 年学校纪念「建校二十周年」暨求是书院成立五十周年，史地学家张其昀明确以求是书院为校史源头，1948 年《第二次中国教育年鉴》据此记浙大事。

• Ma Yinchu succeeded Chu in August 1949, and in 1950 the ministry ordered the word national struck from the name, giving the university its present Chinese title1949 年 8 月马寅初接任校长，1950 年奉教育部令删去校名中「国立」二字，改用现名。

• The nationwide restructuring of 1952 turned it into a Soviet-style polytechnic retaining only its electrical, chemical, civil and mechanical engineering departments and absorbing parts of Hangchow University, while its colleges of agriculture and medicine spun off as independent universities and its arts, science and education departments helped form Zhejiang Teachers College, reorganised as Hangzhou University in 19581952 年全国高等学校院系调整中，学校仿苏联模式改为多科性工业大学，仅存电机、化工、土木、机械诸系，之江大学相关工科并入；农学院独立为浙江农学院，医学院与省立医学院组建浙江医学院，文、理、教育诸系与他校合并为浙江师范学院，1958 年改建杭州大学。

• A new campus was laid out in 1954 beside the city's first cemetery and occupied in 1956 as the Yuquan Campus, while the hybrid academy buildings on University Road were progressively demolished and their site reassigned1954 年学校择杭州第一公墓之侧兴建新校，1956 年迁入玉泉校区；求是书院旧址的中西合璧建筑群其后陆续拆除，大学路老校区转给他校使用。

• The sciences were rebuilt from 1957 under the party secretary Liu Dan, and the university was listed among the national key universities in 1963, administration collapsed during the Cultural Revolution, when rival student factions fought one another, and students confronted teenage red guards to spare the Lingyin Temple until Zhou Enlai placed it under protection1957 年起在党委书记刘丹主持下重新筹建理科；1963 年学校被列为全国重点大学；「文化大革命」期间校务停顿，红卫兵派别长期对峙，1966 年浙大学生为护灵隐寺文物与中学生红卫兵辩论，直至周恩来下达保护命令方止。

• The entrance examination resumed in 1977, the ministry and Zhejiang province began jointly funding the university in November 1980, and it entered the first cohort of the Project 211 in 19951977 年恢复高考，1980 年 11 月改为教育部与浙江省共建，1995 年成为首批列入国家「211 工程」建设计划的重点大学之一。

• The four universities merged into the comprehensive Zhejiang University on 15 September 1998, construction began at Zijingang in 2001 and the central administration moved there from Yuquan in 2007, in 2017 the university joined the first Double First-Class cohort as a Class A institution with 18 designated disciplines, renewed with 21 disciplines in the second round of 20221998 年 9 月 15 日，原浙江大学、杭州大学、浙江农业大学与浙江医科大学四校合并，组建新的综合型浙江大学；2001 年起在紫金港兴建新校区并于 2007 年将校部机关自玉泉迁往紫金港；2017 年入选首批国家「双一流」建设高校（A 类）的 18 个学科，2022 年以 21 个学科续列第二轮建设名单。

Academics

• Its disciplines span thirteen categories, from philosophy, economics and law through the sciences, engineering, agriculture and medicine to art and interdisciplinary studies, organised into seven faculties, forty-one schools and departments, a graduate college of engineering, two Sino-foreign joint colleges and seven directly affiliated hospitals, as the university's current official profile states学校学科涵盖哲学、经济学、法学、教育学、文学、历史学、理学、工学、农学、医学、管理学、艺术学与交叉学科等 13 个门类，设有 7 个学部、41 个专业学院（系）、1 个工程师学院、2 个中外合作办学学院与 7 家直属附属医院（据官网学校概况页）。

• Undergraduate study runs through 103 majors, with the Chu Kochen Honours College, established in May 2000 from the selective class first trialled in 1984, serving academically gifted students, a place among the first thirty-six universities in the Strong Foundation Plan of 2020, and the graduate college of engineering covering professional degrees and industry links本科教育开设 103 个专业，工科与信息类生源竞争激烈，前身可溯 1984 年试办混合班、2000 年 5 月正式建院的竺可桢学院承担拔尖创新人才与荣誉培养，2020 年入选首批强基计划试点高校，工程师学院则面向专业学位与产教融合。

• Undergraduate study is offered through more than a hundred majors, with the College of Computer Science and Technology, the honours Chu Kochen College and the graduate college of engineering forming the elite and professional poles of teaching本科教育开设 100 余个专业，工科与信息类招生竞争激烈，计算机科学与技术学院、竺可桢学院（荣誉学院，前身为 1984 年试办的混合班）与工程师学院构成拔尖与专业学位两端。

• The official profile records 9,787 members of staff at the end of 2025, among them 30 full academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and 20 of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, while the undergraduate academic affairs office counted 4,668 full-time teachers in September 2024据官网学校概况页，截至 2025 年底有教职工 9787 人，教师中有中国科学院全职院士 30 人、中国工程院全职院士 20 人；本科教务页列专任教师 4668 人（截至 2024 年 9 月）。

• Enrolment ranks among the largest in China, the official profile giving 70,918 full-time students and 6,787 international students at the end of 2025, while the English facts and figures page lists over 28,000 undergraduates, over 41,000 postgraduates and more than 4,700 degree-seeking students from over 150 countries在校生规模居全国高校前列，官网概况页列截至 2025 年底全日制学生 70918 人、国际学生 6787 人，英文 Facts & Figures 页另列本科生 2.8 万余人、研究生 4.1 万余人、学历国际学生 4700 余人来自 150 多个国家。

• In the ministry's fourth round of subject evaluation, published in 2017, the university won 31 rated disciplines, eleven of them graded A+, among them ecology, optical engineering, control science, computer science, agricultural engineering, software engineering, horticulture, plant protection and clinical medicine, with the university reporting progress across nearly all subjects in the fifth round, twenty-one disciplines were designated in the second Double First-Class list of 2022, three of them newly, and its earlier national key disciplines comprised 14 first-level and 21 second-level subjects concentrated in science, engineering, agriculture and medicine在教育部 2017 年公布的第四轮全国学科评估中，学校获 A 类学科 31 个，其中 A+ 学科 11 个，包括生态学、光学工程、控制科学与工程、计算机科学与技术、农业工程、软件工程、园艺学、植物保护与临床医学等，官网称绝大多数学科在第五轮评估中取得进步；2022 年公布的第二轮「双一流」建设名单中 21 个学科入选，其中动力工程及工程热物理、土木工程与临床医学为新进；此前评定的国家重点学科一级 14 个、二级 21 个，主要分布在理、工、农、医领域。

• Its platforms have been renamed under the reorganised national key laboratory system, the university reporting in September 2026 that all twenty of its national key laboratories are open to undergraduates, against a 2023 account of ten led and six participated in, spanning silicon materials, chemical engineering, computer-aided design and graphics, modern optical instrumentation, industrial control, clean energy and infectious diseases科研平台已随国家实验室体系重组改称全国重点实验室，官网 2026 年 9 月称学校把 20 个全国重点实验室全部向本科生开放，此前 2023 年 4 月的口径为牵头组建 10 家、参与建设 6 家，学科覆盖硅材料、化学工程、计算机辅助设计与图形学、现代光学仪器、工业控制技术、能源清洁利用与传染病诊治等方向。

• All seven directly affiliated hospitals are tertiary grade A institutions, comprising the First, Second, Sir Run Run Shaw, Fourth, women's, children's and stomatological hospitals of the medical school, the First and Second hospitals long ranked among the best in China7 家直属附属医院均为三级甲等医院，含浙江大学医学院附属第一医院、附属第二医院、邵逸夫医院、妇产科医院、儿童医院、口腔医院与第四医院（义乌），其中第一医院与第二医院长期位列全国医院前列。

• Exchange and joint study involve 233 partner universities and more than 540 international programmes across 103 undergraduate majors on the university's own count, and it belongs to the C9 League, the Association of Pacific Rim Universities, the International Association of Universities, the Yangtze Delta Universities Alliance and the BRICS Universities League学校与 233 所海外大学开展交换与联合培养，开设 540 余个国际学习项目，本科专业 103 个（官网 Facts & Figures 口径），是九校联盟、环太平洋大学联盟（APRU）、国际大学协会（IAU）、长三角高校合作联盟与金砖国家大学联盟成员。

• The Haining International Campus, opened in 2016, houses the Zhejiang University-University of Edinburgh Institute and the Zhejiang University-University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Institute with English-medium dual degrees, alongside a business school and a joint applied data science laboratory with Imperial College London2016 年开学的海宁国际校区设浙江大学爱丁堡大学联合学院与浙江大学伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳香槟校区联合学院，实行全英文教学与中外双学位，另有商学院与帝国理工学院应用数据科学联合实验室入驻。

Campus

• The university holds seven campuses covering 7,392,273 square metres at the end of 2025 on its official profile, and its charter fixes the statutory seat at 866 Yuhutang Road, Hangzhou, the site of the Zijingang campus学校有紫金港、玉泉、西溪、华家池、之江、舟山、海宁 7 个校区，官网学校概况页列截至 2025 年底占地面积 7392273 平方米；《浙江大学章程》第二条定校本部住所地为浙江省杭州市余杭塘路 866 号，即紫金港校区。

• Work on Zijingang began in September 2001, its eastern area opened in October 2002 and the western extension, under construction from 2011, came into use around 2019, the administration moved there in April 2007, and first-year students are housed in residential colleges named Baisha, Cuibai, Danqing, Ziyun and Yunfeng紫金港校区 2001 年 9 月开工、2002 年 10 月启用东区块，西区工程 2011 年动工、2019 年前后投用，2007 年 4 月校部机关自玉泉迁入后取代玉泉成为主校区，新生按白沙、翠柏、丹青、紫云、云峰等学园住宿管理。

• The Yuquan Campus on Zheda Road, seat of the older university before the merger, still houses most engineering schools and is known for its statue of Mao Zedong, its bronze of Chu Kochen and its mature tree-lined avenues玉泉校区位于西湖区浙大路 38 号，是 1998 年合并前老浙江大学的本部，工科院系多驻于此，校园内有毛泽东塑像与竺可桢铜像，图书馆老馆与林荫道构成其主要景观。

• The Xixi Campus, formerly Hangzhou University, holds the schools of humanities, media and education, Huajiachi, the site of the former Zhejiang Agricultural University, now serves continuing education and the dental centre, and Zhijiang preserves the chapel-and-quadrangle architecture of the old Hangchow University, the law school having moved there in 2007西溪校区（天目山路 148 号）为原杭州大学校址，人文、传媒与教育诸学院驻此；华家池校区（凯旋路 268 号）原为浙江农业大学校址，农学院迁往紫金港后现有继续教育学院与口腔医学中心；之江校区（之江路 51 号）保存原之江大学的教会校园建筑，2007 年起为光华法学院驻地。

• The Zhoushan Campus, built from 2012 and opened in September 2015, hosts the Ocean College and its harbour and ocean laboratories, while the Haining campus began planning in February 2013, admitted its first students in September 2016 and came fully into use in October 2017 at 718 Haizhou East Road, Haining, a Ningbo campus developed with the municipal government from 2017, and research institutes in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Suzhou, Zhengzhou and Sanya extend the university beyond Zhejiang舟山校区 2012 年动工、2015 年 9 月建成，为海洋学院驻地，设有港航与海洋科学实验室；海宁国际校区 2013 年 2 月启动筹建、2016 年 9 月招生开学、2017 年 10 月全面启用，地处海宁市海州东路 718 号；学校另于 2017 年起与宁波市政府合设宁波校区，并在北京、上海、深圳、苏州、郑州、三亚等地设立研究机构。

• Eight libraries hold 8.22 million volumes on the university's official figures, and a museum with four specimen collections preserves over 140,000 plant specimens图书馆有分馆 8 个（官网 Facts & Figures 口径），学校概况页列总藏书量 822 万册；另有浙江大学博物馆与 4 个标本馆，植物标本收藏 14 万余号。

Reputation

• Among the four major global rankings it stands 47th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings, tied 34th in the 2027 Times Higher Education rankings, 24th in the 2026 ARWU and 35th in the 2026-27 U.S. News Best Global Universities, the official league tables remaining the final authority国际四大榜单中，2027 年 QS 世界大学排名第 47 位，2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名第 34 位（并列），2026 年软科世界大学学术排名第 24 位，2026—2027 年度 US News 世界大学排名第 35 位；各名次以官方榜单发布为准。^[1]

• The university's own facts and figures page reports third place nationally in the ShanghaiRanking Best Chinese Universities Ranking of 2025 and sixth in Asia by U.S. News在国内榜单中，官网 Facts & Figures 页列其在软科 2025 年中国最好大学排名第 3 位、US News 亚洲排名第 6 位。

• On scientific output the university's own English-language news of June 2026 reported its first appearance at the top of the Nature Index Research Leaders tables for 2026, measured on 2025 data, while the traditional edition of the CWTS Leiden Ranking placed it first worldwide for 2025 and SCImago fifth for 2024, and OpenAlex, retrieved in October 2026, credits it with 425,764 works and over 34.8 million citations, the output-based tables differing from one another and each official release remaining authoritative以论文产出计，官网 2026 年 6 月发布英文新闻称其在自然指数「Research Leaders」2026 年度榜（依据 2025 年全年数据）上首次跃居全球学术机构首位，莱顿排名传统口径 2025 年亦列其全球第 1 位，SCImago 机构排名 2024 年列第 5 位；据 OpenAlex 机构记录（2026 年 10 月检索），学校累计成果 425764 篇、总被引逾 3486 万次。产出类榜单口径互异，均以各榜单官方发布为准。^[2]

• The Essential Science Indicators placed fifteen of its disciplines within the world's top one per mille as of May 2025, with engineering, agricultural science, computer science and chemistry among the strongest基本科学指标数据库（ESI）显示，学校有 15 个学科进入全球前 1‰（2025 年 5 月口径），工程学、农业科学、计算机科学、化学等学科长期居全球前列。

• Employability surveys placed it 35th in the QS Graduate Employability Rankings of 2022 and 71st in the Times Higher Education Global University Employability Ranking of 2025就业与声誉调查中，QS 毕业生就业能力榜 2022 年列其全球第 35 位，泰晤士高等教育全球大学就业力榜 2025 年列其全球第 71 位。

Student life

• The motto, translated as Seeking Truth and Pursuing Innovation, derives from the Neo-Confucian dictum that a scholar's learning seeks only what is right, the council adopted Qiushi at Yishan in November 1938 and appended the word for innovation in May 1988 to suit the reform era校训「求是创新」，「求是」取意于王阳明「君子之学，唯求其是」，1938 年 11 月在广西宜山召开的校务会议上正式确立，1988 年 5 月校务会议在校训末增补「创新」二字以求适应改革开放时期。

• The university anthem, originally titled Da bu zi duo, pairs words in archaic four-character lines by the classical scholar Ma Yifu, written in 1938, with music composed in the summer of 1941 by Ying Shangneng of the National Conservatory of Music, its allusive difficulty drew objection, but Chu Kochen kept it for its depth, and an online survey run by the ministry's press office in 2014 voted it the most popular university anthem校歌《浙江大学校歌》原名《大不自多》，歌词 1938 年由国学大师马一浮用文言四言写成、曲由国立音乐专科学校应尚能教授于 1941 年夏谱成；歌词用典深奥，竺可桢以其「意甚深」而定保留，2014 年在教育部新闻办公室的网络评选中被列为最受喜爱的大学校歌。

• The official profile sets out the shared values of the community as diligent study, moral cultivation, clear judgement and earnest practice, names its spirit in a four-part couplet of inclusiveness, integrity, pioneering enterprise and service to the nation, and quotes the classical line describing a great college on the banks of the Zhejiang官网简介列「勤学、修德、明辨、笃实」为浙大人共同价值观，「海纳江河、启真厚德、开物前民、树我邦国」为浙大精神，并以「国有成均，在浙之滨」自述其百年办学志向。

• The emblem's device is the Qiushi eagle, first shown on the seal of National Chekiang University in the 1920s, readopted in a scheme published in December 1990, approved by the council in January 1991 and refined digitally in May 2017, with the founding year 1897 within its inner ring, and the university's visual identity names its primary colour truth-seeking blue, supported by an innovation red校标主体为展翅的「求是鹰」，先见于 1920 至 1930 年代国立浙江大学校徽，1990 年 12 月公布方案、1991 年 1 月经校务会议通过，2017 年 5 月完成数字化精修，内圈下方标注创办年份 1897；官方视觉识别将标准色命名为「求是蓝」，辅以「创新红」。

• The university charter fixes the anniversary on 21 May each year, recalling the day the Qiushi Academy opened in 1897, a centenary-and-twenty gathering was held at the Zijingang gymnasium on 21 May 2017, while the 125th anniversary in 2022 was observed modestly and online as well as on site《浙江大学章程》第七十五条定校庆日为每年 5 月 21 日，取 1897 年 5 月 21 日（清光绪二十三年四月二十日）求是书院开学之始；2017 年 5 月 21 日在紫金港体育馆举行建校 120 周年纪念大会，2022 年 125 周年则按简朴、务实的方针线上线下结合开展。

• Chu Kochen's two questions to the freshmen of 1936, asking what a student had come to the university to do and what kind of person he or she intended to become, are carved beside the main gate of Zijingang, and his remarks on the purpose of a university education hang throughout the campuses竺可桢 1936 年向新生提出的两问——到浙大来做什么，将来毕业后要做什么样的人——已镌于紫金港校区主门旁的石上，校园内另常悬其论大学教育目的之语。

• The facts and figures page reports 270 registered student organisations and forty-two varsity sports in 2026, the student-run CC98 forum dating from December 2002 and the Wenqin arts troupe, endowed by the American alumnus Yao Wenqin, carrying the performance calendar, alongside more than a thousand provincial, national and international titles won between 2012 and 2024 and ten Olympic medals by alumni官网 Facts & Figures 页列注册学生社团 270 个（2026 年）、竞技体育项目 42 项，学生自办的 CC98 论坛创办于 2002 年 12 月，旅美校友姚文琴捐资设立的文琴艺术总团长年承担校园演出，同页并记校友在 2012 年至 2024 年间获省级、全国与国际赛事冠军千余次、奥运奖牌 10 枚。

Notable people

• Among its founders and early presidents were Lin Qi, who established the academy, and Jiang Menglin, Shao Peizi, Cheng Tien-fong and Kuo Jen-yuan, followed by the long serving Chu Kochen, Ma Yinchu and the nuclear physicist Qian Sanqiang创办与早期治校者中，杭州知府林启创设求是书院，蒋梦麟、邵裴子、程天放与郭任远先后主校，竺可桢治校十三年奠定学术格局，马寅初、钱三强亦曾任校长。

• Among the scholars who taught there from the 1930s to the 1950s were Su Buqing and Chen Jiangong, whose joint work founded a Chinese school of differential geometry, the geneticist Tan Jiazhen, the cell biologist Bei Shizhang, the physicist Wang Ganchang, the entomologist Cai Banghua and the historian and geographer Chang Ch'i-yun1930 年代至 1950 年代在校执教的学者中，苏步青与陈建功共创微分几何的「陈苏学派」，谈家桢开创中国遗传学研究，贝时璋为细胞生物学奠基人之一，王淦昌、蔡邦华、张其昀分别在核物理、昆虫学与历史地理学领域著称。

• Among verified links to the state's highest science and technology prize are the meteorologist Ye Duzheng, who took his master's degree here between 1940 and 1943, the mathematician Gu Chaohao, who studied and then taught at the university from 1943 to 1948, and the nuclear physicist Cheng Kaijia, a physics graduate of 1941 who stayed on to teach, in letters the novelist Jin Yong took the first deanship of the reconstituted Faculty of Arts and Humanities in 1999 and its honorary deanship in 2007, while Wang Xufeng's tea trilogy won the Mao Dun Literature Prize of 2000可核与国家最高科学技术奖相关者有气象学家叶笃正（1940 年至 1943 年在校读研并获得硕士学位）、数学家谷超豪（1943 年至 1948 年在本校求学并任教）与核物理学家程开甲（1941 年物理系毕业并留校任教）；人文界中，小说家查良镛（金庸）1999 年出任浙江大学人文学院首任院长、2007 年改任名誉院长，作家王旭烽以《茶人三部曲》获 2000 年茅盾文学奖。

• The university's own profile summarises this record as one Nobel laureate, five winners of the state's highest science and technology prize, four holders of the Two Bombs One Satellite merit medal, five recipients of national honorary titles and more than 230 academicians of the two academies: Tsung-Dao Lee, Nobel laureate in physics in 1957, entered the physics department in Guizhou in 1943 under Wang Ganchang and Shu Hing-pei, Chien-Shiung Wu studied and taught here as an assistant for a year from 1934, and Shing-Tung Yau, Fields medallist of 1982, founded and directs the Centre of Mathematical Sciences官网简介以求是精神谱系概括其人才贡献，列有 1 位诺贝尔奖获得者、5 位国家最高科学技术奖得主、4 位「两弹一星」功勋奖章获得者、5 位国家荣誉称号获得者与 230 余位两院院士；1957 年诺贝尔物理学奖得主李政道 1943 年进入西迁贵州的浙大物理系，师从王淦昌与束星北，吴健雄则于 1934 年至 1936 年在校研究进修并任助教一年，1982 年菲尔兹奖得主丘成桐创办并主持浙江大学数学科学研究中心。

• Its alumni in technology and industry include Duan Yongping, of the radio engineering class of 1978 and founder of Subor and BBK, Colin Huang, admitted to the honours mixed class in 1998 and founder of Pinduoduo, and Liang Wenfeng, who read electronic information engineering in 2002 and took a master's degree here before founding a quantitative fund and the DeepSeek laboratory, while the undergraduate admissions office credits fifty academicians of the two academies with study or teaching at the university as of December 2025科技与产业界校友中，段永平 1978 年入无线电工程系并创立小霸王与步步高，黄峥 1998 年保送进入混合班、2002 年毕业后创立拼多多，梁文锋 2002 级读电子信息工程、后在本校获硕士，创立量化私募基金与深度求索（DeepSeek）；官网本科招生页列曾有 50 位两院院士在校求学或任教（截至 2025 年 12 月）。