The School of International Education at Zhejiang Sci - Tech University was first established in 2017. In 2024, its functions underwent transformation during the institutional adjustment. Currently, it mainly undertakes the centralized management of international students coming to the university and the organization and funding management of exchange programs for Chinese students going abroad (or to Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan regions).

As one of the important windows for international exchanges at Zhejiang Sci - Tech University, the school always takes the mission of cultivating compound talents with a global perspective, cross - cultural communication skills, and international competitiveness. It adheres to the "Five - for" educational internationalization concept of "the university as the leader, the school as the main body, academics as the theme, scholars as the main force, and students as the protagonist", follows the integrated development path of "characterization, regionalization, and internationalization", and actively promotes the "two - way internationalization" strategy.

The school expands the enrollment channels for international students through multiple channels to improve the enrollment quality. It continuously promotes the "Study at Sci - Tech" action plan. By strengthening overseas promotion, expanding external resources, and innovating the enrollment and training models, it increases the scale and quality of international student sources. In recent years, the scale of international students coming to the university has increased steadily, and the educational background structure has been continuously optimized. In 2024, a total of 977 long - term and short - term international students were trained, with degree - seeking students accounting for 69% (nearly half of them are high - level master's and doctoral degree - seeking students). As a recipient and training unit for international students with Chinese government scholarships, it has been approved for the "Silk Road" project for 8 consecutive years. In 2024, the number of recommended places for the "High - level Postgraduate Program" has reached the level of double - first - class universities, and it has successfully passed the performance evaluation of the implementation of Chinese government scholarships every year.

The school comprehensively implements the management model of "unity with differences, seeking common ground while reserving differences" for international students studying in China. At the university level, it takes the lead in carrying out relatively comprehensive reforms in the system of international students studying in China, optimizing processes, and enabling digital intelligence. It has formulated a package of interrelated and interdependent management regulations for international students covering school status, discipline violations, scholarships, apartments, fees, and visas. It has also compiled a workflow manual for international student work, which effectively enhances the collaboration among departments, plays an important role in the educational and teaching management of international students studying in China and the daily management of international students, and promotes the smooth and orderly development of all work related to international students studying in China. The management mechanism of our university's international students has been reported as an excellent case to the main leaders of the public security entry - exit management departments at the provincial, municipal, and district levels.

The school deeply carries out the innovation and entrepreneurship education and national conditions education for international students. It deepens the cooperation among the university, the government, and enterprises, jointly builds brand activities such as the "International Maker Gas Station" and the International Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Growth Camp (Eagle Cub Class) with local governments, and has been approved to establish two provincial - level innovation and entrepreneurship practice bases for international students. It responds to the government's call to carry out the work of "international students helping enterprises go global". It conducts high - quality national conditions education for international students, and has been approved to establish a famous teacher studio for national conditions education for international students in Zhejiang Province. In 2024, it has been approved for one "Perceiving China" micro - course and one "Perceiving China" practice base by the China Scholarship Council. In the first batch of the "Double - Hundred Project" of the Ministry of Education, it has obtained one excellent course on Chinese national conditions education for international students and one social practice activity base for Chinese and foreign teenagers. Our university's international students have shown good styles in important foreign affairs activities such as the CCTV interview of the Central Asia Summit, the Xinhua News Agency interview during General Secretary Xi Jinping's visit to Vietnam, the opening - day performance of the Second Global Digital Trade Expo, and the service of the Hangzhou Asian Games.

At present, the school has established a scientific, standardized, and distinctive educational management system for international students studying in China. Its educational management level for international students studying in China ranks among the top in the province. It has formed a "Zhejiang Sci - Tech" international education model that conforms to the university's situation, is distinctive, and has obvious effects, which is widely recognized by peers in the industry. In October 2023, the university passed the quality certification of higher education for international students with an excellent result of a 6 - year certification validity period. The school is now the deputy - secretary - general and executive director unit of the Education Management Branch of Foreign Students of the China Higher Education Society, and the director - member unit of the International Student Education and Teaching Guidance Committee of Zhejiang Province. In recent years, it has made positive contributions to the education of international students studying in China in the province and even across the country.

At the same time, the school constantly explores innovative mechanisms and new models for the organization and funding of students going abroad (or to Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan regions), and strives to expand the scale and improve the quality of Chinese students' overseas exchanges through the optimization of business processes and the improvement of funding efficiency, so as to provide strong support for the university's "double - first - class" construction and the construction of a high - level university, and continuously promote the university's international education level to a higher level.