Zhejiang University

Zhejiang University was founded in 1897 in Hangzhou and is a member of the C9 League, with broad research strength across engineering, medicine, agriculture, business and the sciences. Hangzhou is the practical argument for it. The city has a milder climate and materially lower living costs than Beijing or Shanghai while remaining a major technology centre, as the home of Alibaba. For a Kazakh applicant weighing four years of living costs, that difference compounds. Its School of Medicine runs an English-medium MBBS at CNY 42,800 a year, the university's own published rate and the highest of its four tuition bands. Zhejiang is among the broadest of the C9 universities by subject range, which suits an applicant who has not settled on a field as firmly as an engineering or business specialist would.