The University is located on the south-west side of Shaoxing city and has managed to grow in popularity and strength over the last decade. The University was founded in 1909 as the Shankuai Primary Normal School. The influential modern Chinese author Lu Xun (1881-1936) is a native of Shaoxing. He was the education inspector for the school. In 1996, Shaoxing University was established from the merger of several higher education institutions such as Shaoxing Teachers College and Shaoxing Advanced Professional College.[1]
Administration
The university is organised into the following administrative divisions.[2]
Administrative offices
President's Office
Office of International Cooperation and Exchange
Academic Affairs Office
Admission and Graduate Affairs Office
Student Affairs Office
Science and Technology Administration Office
Press Release Center
Human Resources Department
Retired Personnel Affairs Office
Security and Safeguard Department
Finance Department
University Enterprise Administration Office
General Affairs Office
University Assets Administration Office
Construction and Campus Planning Office
Maintenance and Campus Administration Office
Colleges and departments
The university is organized into the following colleges and departments.[3]
Faculty of Foreign Languages
Faculty of Law
Cai Yuanpei Art College
Faculty of Physical Education
Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
Faculty of Mathematics Physics and Information Science
Unless otherwise stated, all the universities and colleges listed are provincial or municipal public universities and colleges. DBC: Double First-Class Construction; 985: Project 985; 211: Project 211; Key: National Key Universities; P+M: provincial and ministerial co-founded universities. Degree: institutions offering degree education; Professional: institutions offering professional training and certificates. Vocational: institutions offering vocational training and diploma. Private: privately founded. Foreign: Sino-foreign cooperative joint universities; Independent: Independent college affiliated to a university; Continuing: Continuing education institutions; Private: Privately founded As of April 2018, there were 108 higher education institutions in Zhejiang, among which 36 were private, and 9 Continuing education institutions.