Zhengzhou University
#618
QS World University Rankings 2026
27.7
QS 2026 overall score
Ranking data
QS World University Rankings source#618
QS World University Rankings 2026
#511
QS World University Rankings 2025
27.7
QS 2026 overall score
Indicator-level data
Each card keeps the QS 2026 score and rank separate. A missing value is not estimated.
Academic reputation
- QS 2026 score
- 7.1
- QS 2026 rank
- #701
Employer reputation
- QS 2026 score
- 23.8
- QS 2026 rank
- #564
Faculty-student ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 7
- QS 2026 rank
- #801
Citations per faculty
- QS 2026 score
- 82.7
- QS 2026 rank
- #137
International student ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 4.1
- QS 2026 rank
- #801
International student diversity
- QS 2026 score
- 3.3
- QS 2026 rank
- #801
International research network
- QS 2026 score
- 62.3
- QS 2026 rank
- #661
Employment outcomes
- QS 2026 score
- 11.4
- QS 2026 rank
- #801
Sustainability
- QS 2026 score
- 42.3
- QS 2026 rank
- #801
About Zhengzhou University
Zhengzhou University combines a large comprehensive academic structure
Zhengzhou University's English overview reports a campus area of more than eight thousand five hundred mu, which it converts to about five hundred sixty-six hectares. It describes more than forty-four thousand full-time undergraduate students, nearly thirty thousand postgraduates, more than two thousand three hundred international students from eighty-eight countries, and a faculty of more than four thousand five hundred. The university presents thirteen major disciplines and a wide teaching and research system. These figures describe institutional scale, while a school or programme page is still needed for a personal academic comparison.
The international pages and graduate-school material show that Zhengzhou University works across undergraduate, postgraduate, doctoral, and international study routes. Its location in Henan also matters for a project whose fieldwork or regional context is connected to central China. A large institution can contain very different academic cultures inside one name. Put the discipline, school, laboratory, language setting, and supervisor in separate fields instead of reading them from the university-wide numbers.
Zhengzhou's research system reaches medicine, technology, and social inquiry
The university's official overview refers to national laboratories and research initiatives, while current English news highlights work such as quantum-materials research. Other institutional material identifies two national drug clinical research bases and a large graduate-training system. These references show that the university supports both fundamental and applied directions. They can guide a search, but they cannot confirm that one programme uses every facility or that a named researcher is taking students for a particular topic.
A project in medicine may require clinical research, drug evaluation, public health, or biomedical methods. A physics or materials question may need a specific laboratory, instrument, and measurement approach. Computing, management, law, humanities, and other disciplines require different forms of evidence and supervision. The broad discipline list should be narrowed to the school and research group that actually describe the question, method, and expected output.
A practical way to compare a Zhengzhou University option
Write the research problem in one paragraph and name the material, population, system, or dataset it concerns. Then use the university's school, graduate, international, and research pages to locate a plausible academic home. If you are comparing a medical route, distinguish clinical practice from laboratory or population research. If the work is in engineering, materials, or computing, list the technical method and facility it needs. For humanities or social sciences, state the archive, community, policy, or text that would be studied.
The data panel gives institutional background about Zhengzhou University and does not assess one course, school, laboratory, or supervisor. In a shortlist entry, enter the programme title, academic unit, question, method, language context, and the live ZZU page that carries the route details. Keep student and faculty totals separate from evidence about fit. A careful note should also identify what remains unknown, such as a current project description, supervisor availability, or programme language, so that a large institutional overview does not become an unsupported conclusion. When the institution is large, recording these boundaries is what keeps a promising direction separate from a claim about a specific research place. The distinction protects the shortlist from overreading scale. This keeps scale in context.
Institution record
- Country
- China (Mainland)
- Region
- Asia
- Status
- Public
- QS size code
- XL
- Profile record updated
- October 31, 2025
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