With years of development, Fudan has become a comprehensive research university with ten disciplines including philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, medical science and management. Fudan takes pride in its balanced strengths in arts, science and medical science. In recently years, the University promotes interdisciplinary development and emerging science development to facilitate discipline development into world-class level.

There are 24 Level I discipline bachelor programs, 153 Level I discipline doctor programs and 219 Level I discipline master programs. There are 11 Level I national key disciplines, 19 Level II national key disciplines, and 3 national (nurturing) key disciplines, 20 Shanghai municipal key disciplines, 9 Shanghai municipal key medical disciplines. In the 3rd round national discipline evaluation, Fudan submitted 37 Level I disciplines and 12 of them rank top 3 in China, 17 of them rank top 5 in China. Currently there are 15 discplines rank 1% by ESI globally, which ranks 2nd in China. Among all, there are 3 disciplines rank top 100 in the world, namely, Chemistry No. 48th, Material Science No. 51st, and Mathematics No. 81st. Clinical medical science ranks ESI 0.1% globally and has the potential of becoming a world class discipline.

Fudan University Development and Planning Office is responsible for discipline development planning, screening and evaluating the development programs of the key disciplines.

National Key Discipline

According to the announcement by Ministry of Education on 20th August 2007, Fudan University has 11 Level I national key disciplines, 19 Level II national key disciplines, and 3 national key (cultivating) disciplines.

• List of National Key Disciplines (by Ministry of Education on 20th August 2007)

  No.	Level I National Key Disciplines	No.	Level II National Key Disciplines
  1	Philosophy	1	Industrial Economics
  		2	Finance
  2	Economic Theory	3	Political Theory
  		4	International Relations
  3	Chinese Language and Literature	5	Historical Geography
  		6	Modern Chinese History
  4	Journalism and Communication	7	Computer Software and Theory
  		8	Internal Medicine	Cardiovascular Diseases
  5	Mathematics			Nephropathy
  				Communicable Diseases
  6	Physics	9	Pediatrics
  		10	Neurology
  7	Chemistry	11	Medical Imaging and Nuclear Medicine
  		12	Surgery
  8	Biology	13	Ophthalmology
  		14	Otolaryngology
  9	Electronic engineering	15	Oncology
  		16	Obstetrics and Gynecology
  10	Basic Medicine	17	Epidemiology and health statistics
  		18	Pharmacy
  11	Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine	19	Social Medicine and Health Services Management

Shanghai Key Discipline

According to the announcement by Shanghai Municipal Education Committee on 8th August 2007, Fudan University has 20 Shanghai Key Disciplines.

Shanghai Key Medical Discipline

According to the announcement by Shanghai Municipal Commission of Health on 20th December 2004, Fudan University has 9 Shanghai Key Medical Disciplines.