Run by the People’s Government of Henan Province, Zhengzhou University (ZZU) ，located at No.100, Kexuedadao Road, Zhengzhou City, Henan，boasts of a total area of about 939 acres and four campuses: Main Campus (No.100, Kexuedadao Road, Zhengzhou City), South Campus (No.75, Daxuebeilu Road, Zhengzhou City), North Campus (No. 97, Wenhua Road, Zhengzhou City), and East Campus (No. 40, Daxuebeilu Road, Zhengzhou City). Targeting the whole China for admission, ZZU embraces a wide range of enrollment of over 55,000 full-time undergraduates, over 15,000 full-time postgraduates of all kinds and some 1,800 international students from more than 116 countries and regions. ZZU is on the list of National "211 Project" of key construction universities, and of "One Province, One University" of National Key Support Construction Universities, as well as of co-construction universities by Henan Province and Ministry of Education.

With integrative development, ZZU fulfils its layout as a comprehensive university. It boasts of 12 major disciplines: philosophy, economics, law, management science, and arts, reaching a balanced development of all the disciplines; three "double first-class" construction disciplines, ie., clinical medicine, materials science and engineering, and chemistry; and 6 national key (being cultivated) disciplines: the condensed matter physics, material processing engineering, history of ancient China, organic chemistry, chemical technology, pathology and pathophysiology; Besides, 5 disciplines (or fields) rank top 1% in ESI ranking across the globe, and chemistry, clinical medicine rank top 3‰ globally. ZZU’s ESI academic institution ranking is the 918th across the globe, the 45th among all Chinese universities. There are 21 doctoral programs of first-level disciplines, 3 doctoral programs of independent second-level disciplines, 50 master programs of first-level disciplines, 1 granting unit of doctorate professional degree, 22 granting units of professional master degree, and 24 post-doctoral exchange centers as well. Of more than 5700 staff are 10 academicians of Chinese Academy of Science and Chinese Academy of Engineering, 3 overseas academicians. 

ZZU has widely conducted international exchanges and Industry-education-research cooperation. She has established intercollegiate cooperative relationship with 205 universities from over 41 countries and regions, including USA, UK, etc., and 8 Chinese-foreign cooperation programs of education with overseas renowned universities like Monash University and University of Wisconsin, University of Warsaw University, and the Belarusian State Academy of Music, etc, of Confucius Institute in India, and Confucius Classroom in USA. As the first batch of local universities enlisted in "Internationalization Model Institute Promotion Project Pilot Unit", ZZU is also the founding member of "Sino-Russia Language and Culture University Alliance", a sponsor member of "Sino-Russia Journalism Education University Alliance", and a member of "Sino-Russia Medicine University Alliance". ZZU is home to four state-level international joint research centers: micro-nano molding technology, cell and gene therapy, intelligent design for low-carbon environmentally friendly materials and Cancel Chemoprevention. In 2016, ZZU ranked No.31 on the list of internationalization level for Chinese Universities and Colleges.