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. Wang Sheng-hong
The CPC Committee Secretary of the University: Prof. Qin Shao-de
Schools and Research Institutes:
Fudan consists of seventeen schools, ( which comprise sixty-six
departments) and four independent departments: Physics, Chemistry,
Macromolecular Science, and Environmental Science and Engineering.
The University confers bachelor's degrees in sixty-eight academic
disciplines, and master's degrees in two hundred and nine
disciplines (with thirty-eight of them established by the University
itself), and doctoral degrees in twenty-two Level I and one hundred
and thirty-five Level II academic disciplines (with twenty-four 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 25,000 full-time degree candidates.
Another 11,000 are studying at the schools of Continuing Education
and Online Education. Besides, the University's population of
foreign students ranks second in the whole country, which has
reached 1,650 today.
Faculty:
Fudan boasts a qualified faculty of over 2,300 full-time teachers
and researchers, including 1,350 full professors and associate
professors, twenty-five academicians of the Chinese Academy of
Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 746 doctoral
advisors, thirty-two chair professors and eight lecture professors
of the Cheungkong Scholars Program, six chief scientists of Project
973 and thirty-one "Young and Middle-Aged Experts Nationally
Acknowledged for Their Outstanding Achievements". In the recent
years, the University has been proactive in recruiting youthful
strengths and optimizing the echelon of its faculty. Fudan has nine
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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