Zhejiang University of Technology （ZJUT）is a comprehensive key university of Zhejiang province, co-established by the Zhejiang provincial government and the Ministry of Education. It offers programs in a variety of subjects including engineering, science, liberal arts, law, economics, pharmaceuticals, management, and education.

ZJUT is located in Hangzhou, a world-famous historic and cultural city. It consists of three campuses, Chaohui, Pingfeng and Zhijiang, covering a total area of 200 hectares. There are over 3,048 faculty and staff in the university, which has an elegant environment ideal for study and work. It has 27 colleges offering 70 undergraduate majors, and is authorized to recruit international students as well as students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. The value of ZJUT's fixed assets is about 4.077 billion yuan ($647.75 million). The library has an area of more than 46,000 square meters, and contains over 10.8 million books (including e-books), 53,768 of which are Chinese and foreign periodicals.

ZJUT is well-equipped with excellent faculty. There are 487 professors, 946 associate professors and 1,402 teachers with PhDs. ZJUT has three exclusive academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), and four academicians of the CAE and the Chinese Academy of Sciences whom it shares with other institutions. By the end of 2017, there were about 19,159 full-time students，of whom 9,663 were graduate students including 8,883 postgraduate students and 780 were PhD candidates. The student body also includes over 1,706 international students.

Having established interscholastic cooperative relationships with about 80 colleges and universities from countries abroad including the United States, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Japan, Belgium, Australia, Russia, Ukraine, South Korea, Turkey, Sweden, Finland, Austria, Estonia, Malaysia, Thailand and Ghana, as well as the regions of Hong Kong and Macao, ZJUT has become more and more active in external exchanges and made great progress in many areas, such as generating dual or multi culture in students, creating academic exchanges and scientific research cooperation between teachers, running schools with foreign countries, introduction of overseas intelligence, and teaching of Chinese as a foreign language.

ZJUT is entitled to recruit overseas students with scholarships from the Chinese and Zhejiang governments and the Confucius Institute. The students have come from about 100 countries and regions to study Chinese language and culture at the undergraduate and master’s levels.