Henan University, referred to as He Da for short, is located in Kaifeng, a national historical and cultural city. 19 12 years, a group of Henan educators, represented by Mr. Lin, with the assistance of Yuan Shikai and the support of Governor Zhang of Henan Province, founded the Henan Preparatory School for Studying in Europe and America in the former site of Kaifeng Prefecture in the Qing Dynasty, which became one of the three major training bases for studying abroad in China at that time, with the tripartite confrontation with Tsinghua (now Tsinghua) and Shanghai Nanyang Public College (Jin 'an Jiaotong University and Shanghai Jiaotong University). General Feng Yuxiang rebuilt the National Fifth Sun Yat-sen University. After that, the name of Henan University was restored on 1984 after the stages of Zhongzhou University, National Fifth Sun Yat-sen University, Provincial Henan University, National Henan University, Henan Normal University, Kaifeng Normal University and Henan Normal University.
Henan University is a key comprehensive university jointly established by the people of China, the Ministry of Education and the People's Government of Henan Province. It is also a university built by the basic ability construction project, excellent doctoral education and training plan, excellent teacher training plan and excellent legal talent education and training plan of universities in the central and western regions, and the national college students' cultural quality education base has been selected as a university.
By the end of 20 15 and 1 2, Henan University had 89 undergraduate majors and 60,000 full-time students, including nearly/kloc graduate students. This library has 6.5 million books. The campus has a total area of 2.2 million square meters and a building area of 6.5438+0.47 million square meters.