ZRTVU has its branch schools scattered in 10 cities or prefectural seats and 61 counties and 7 teaching units set up by some provincial departments or organizations. The university conducts teaching activities in an open way by adopting a combined teaching and learning form of audio-visual series, self-teaching, correspondence and face-to-face tutorials. ZRTVU mainly offers 'BA courses', two-year or three-year specialized college courses, besides, it also provides 'double basic college courses, continuing education and vocational education courses, and various non-degree courses.

　 ZRTVU has established 85 specialties in 20 fields covering science and engineering, economic management and liberal arts etc.in1979/99. The university has enrolled over 230,000 students, and has turned out over 130,000 graduates. It has also turned out 16,000 graduates of specialized secondary school and 260,000 students of non-degree programs.

ZRTVU was awarded as "Excellent Adult University" by Zhejiang Educational Commission in 1997 and as one of the advanced open universities for academic work by CCRTVU in March 1999.

Now, the university has faculties and administrative staff of 1982, including 1002 full-time teachers. In addition, it has 1093 part-time teachers. The university covers an area of 313,907 ㎡and has 1,123,600 books in the library.

The university has set up campus computer network connected with the Internet. ZRTVU is beginning to carry out distance education on net.

　 At present, ZRTVU is devoting every effort to building itself into a modern open university.

Web site: http://www.zjtvu.edu.cn.