Henan University, Henan University), referred to as "river, by the ministry of education of the People's Republic of China and the people's government of Henan province to build, the national" double top "key construction University,  is located in the national famous historical and cultural city - kaifeng, included in the Midwest University foundation ability construction project," 111 plan " outstanding doctor education training program planning, outstanding teachers, excellent legal talent education program, overseas high-level talents introduction plan, with" recommended "an exemption postgraduate qualification and" reserve officers of the national defense students "selective qualification, for UNAI, IAUP, AUAP member.

In 1912, represented by Mr Lin Boxiang educator, a group of henan in the yuan shikai and henan area Zhang fang town, backed by Hiram's hospital site in qing dynasty kaifeng countries founded in henan study in the European and American prep schools (river), became one of the three largest study abroad training base in China, with tsinghua school (now), tsinghua university and nanyang public school (now xi 'an jiaotong university, Shanghai jiaotong university) in the situation of the three pillars of. General feng yuxiang rebuilding its as the national sun yat-sen university, 5 after after zhongzhou university, national sun yat-sen university, 5 provincial university, national university of henan, henan, henan normal university, teachers college in kaifeng, henan normal university, such as phase, 1984 names of henan university. A large number of well-known professors and scholars, such as fan wenlan, feng youlan, dong zubin, guo shao-yu, gao heng, mengwen tong, luo tingguang, ji wenfu, luo zhang long and MAO rui, have been teaching in the school.

As of April, 2016, the campus of henan university has a total area of 2.2 million square meters, with a building area of 1.47 million square meters, and the modern buildings of the Ming lun campus are the state key cultural relics protection units. There are 33 colleges (departments), 94 undergraduate majors, 54 master's degrees and doctorate degrees in first-level disciplines; There are more than 4,300 faculty members, including 13 full-time academicians and more than 1,600 senior professional titles. There are 60,000 full-time students, among whom there are nearly 10,000 students and nearly 300 overseas students.