The Name of the University
Initially known as "Fudan Public School", Fudan University was
founded in the year 1905. "Fudan", literally meaning "(heavenly
light shines) day after day", indicates inexhaustible self-reliance
and industriousness.The University President:
Prof. Yang Yu-liang
The CPC Committee Secretary of the University: Zhu Zhi-wen
Schools and Research Institutes:
Fudan consists of 28 schools and departments, with seventy
undergraduate disciplines.
The University confers bachelor's degrees in seventy academic
disciplines, and master's degrees in two hundred and twenty nine
disciplines (with fifty-one of them established by the University
itself), and doctoral degrees in twenty-four Level I and one hundred
and fifty-four Level II academic disciplines (with thirty of
them established by the University itself). There are also
twenty-nine research stations that offer postdoctoral
fellowships.
Students:
Fudan now has an enrollment of 26,362 full-time degree candidates.
Another 18,664 are studying at the schools of Continuing Education
and Online Education. Besides, the University's population of
foreign students is 3,633 today.
Faculty:
Fudan boasts a qualified faculty of over 2,678 full-time teachers
and researchers, including 1,400 full professors and associate
professors, 36 academicians of the Chinese Academy of
Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 53 chair professors and 30 lecture professors
of the Cheungkong Scholars Program, 17 chief scientists of Project
973. In the recent
years, the University has been proactive in recruiting youthful
strengths and optimizing the echelon of its faculty. Fudan has ten
teaching hospitals, such as Zhong-shan (Dr. Sun Yat-san) Hospital
and Hua-shan (Mount Lotus) Hospital, which offer quality medical
service to the general public, conduct clinical education to student
doctors and perform advanced scientific researches.
Goal:
The single and solitary goal of Fudan is to cultivate more and more
all-round talents for modern China. Emulating the other successful
institutions of tertiary and quaternary education at home and
abroad, the University has been carrying out a series of daring
experiments to integrate the various disciplines of learning and to
utilize the abundant resources of a comprehensive university. After
years of exploring and practicing, Fudan has now established its own
curriculum and management system, both of which are unique and
progressively improving.
High-tech Industry:
Fudan also actively incubates high-tech industries and encourages
them to convert knowledge to power. Years of learning and
discovering have yielded great benefits as well as profits. In
return, the multi-pattern development of the high-tech industries
helps the University with breathtaking efficiency to industrialize
the research outcomes. Meanwhile, a group of University-sponsored
enterprises is emerging, filled with passion and ambition. Fudan has
thus created its signature style of doing business.
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