Fudan University was established in 1905 as Fudan Public School. It is the top 3 university in Chinese mainland and ranks No.34th in the QS world university rankings of 2023. 

The two characters, fù (“return”) and dàn (“dawn”) were borrowed from A Commentary on The Classic of History （《尚书大传·虞夏传》）, of which the part on the Yu and the Xia dynasties mentions: “Brilliant are the sunshine and moonlight, again the morning radiance returns at dawn.” In 1917, the institution was renamed Fudan University, which has been kept ever since.  

Fudan has 35 schools and departments with 18 affiliated hospitals, which offer 70 bachelor degree programs, 154 doctoral degree programs and 224 master degree programs to students across the world.  Meanwhile, Fudan has 77 research institutes, 112 interdisciplinary research institutes, 5 State Key Laboratories, and 80 ministry level research platforms that can provide top research sources and platforms for teachers and students. Currently, there are approximately 50000 students, 3602 teaching and research scholars, 59 academicians of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) in the university.

As a national key university in China, Fudan University has a history of more than 100 years, and it has developed into a comprehensive research university including 12 discipline categories, which are literature, philosophy, humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, technological sciences, management sciences, economics, medicine, art and interdisciplinary. 40 disciplines become nation key ones (Level I and Level Ⅱ), 11 of them belongs to the Level I, which are very competitive in the nation.

Moreover, there are 21 disciplines ranks in the ESI 1% in the world, including: Computer Science, Biology & Biochemistry, Environment/Ecology, Microbiology, Molecular Biology & Genetics, Social Sciences (general), Economics & Business, Geosciences, Mathematics, Physics, Agricultural Sciences, Plant & Animal Science, Immunology, Neuroscience & Behavior, Psychiatry / Psychology, Multidisciplinary. Material Science, Clinical Medicine, Chemistry and Pharmacology & Toxicology has even being the top 1‰ of the world.

Besides, Fudan is one of the first few institutions in China to admit international students, which accepts about 7000 international students from more than 130 countries each year. To overcome language barriers to reach students, Fudan developed over 40 English-instructed programs for both undergraduate and graduate candidates. What’s more, Fudan accept Chinese Government Scholarship (CSC), Shanghai Government Scholarship (SGS), International Chinese Language Teachers Scholarship and China Studies Program Ph.D Fellowship.

In terms of the national cooperation, Fudan has cooperative programs with over 446 universities and institutes in close to 50 countries and regions. At the moment, Fudan University offers student exchange opportunities to over 200 partners such as The University of Chicago, University of Toronto, The University of Sydney, Science Po, UCLA, Humboldt University and etc. Every year, over 3000 students travel overseas to gain their first-hand experience.

Also, Fudan has many dual degree programs with world famous universities like LSE, London Business School, Science-Po, University of Groningen, Lund University, Waseda University.

At present, we have over 60 undergraduate majors available for international students, including three English-taught programs: MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery), UIPE (Undergraduate International Program of Economics) and GBF (Global Bachelor of Finance).

For Chinese-taught majors, in addition to traditional pathways of enrollment by taking entrance exam and interview, students also have an option to be exempted from the entrance exam and directly take the interview, in case the student has required grades of one of the following types of test: SAT, AP, ACT, IB, A-level, ATAR and NCEA, as well as HSK 5. For the three English-taught majors, there is no exam, but an interview is required.

For more information about the application of 2024 intake, please refer to our official website: 

https://iso.fudan.edu.cn/16062/list.htm (Chinese-taught majors, in Chinese only);

https://iso.fudan.edu.cn/isoenglish/16217/list.htm (English-taught majors).