Fujian Medical University

Founded in 1937, Fujian Medical University has developed over 80 years into a key provincially supported university specializing in medicine, with coordinated development in science, management, law, literature, engineering and other disciplines. It offers a bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral education system and integrates teaching, research, medical care, prevention and social services. It is a center for training medical and health professionals, medical research, and medical care and preventive health services in Fujian. In the 2017 Best Chinese Universities Ranking released by ShanghaiRanking, a well-known domestic ranking organization emphasizing educational and teaching quality, the university placed 130th nationwide and second among universities administered by Fujian Province. Over its 80-year history, it has trained more than 100000 medical professionals for the country and region. They include Chen Keji, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; Professor Chen Lieping of the Department of Immunobiology at Yale School of Medicine in the United States, recipient of the 2017 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize; and Professor Jiang Xiaoying, recipient of the Florence Nightingale Medal.

The university has 2 campuses, Shangjie and Taijiang, covering approximately 1500 mu, with more than 420000 square meters of buildings. It has 20 schools or departments and 26 regular undergraduate programs. It is authorized to award doctoral degrees in 2 first-level disciplines covering 25 second-level disciplines, and in 2 additional second-level disciplines; master’s degrees in 8 first-level disciplines covering 52 second-level disciplines, and in 1 additional second-level discipline; and professional master’s degrees in 6 disciplines. It has 2 postdoctoral research stations, in clinical medicine and basic medicine, and 3 academician workstations. Its network of clinical teaching and practical education bases includes 6 directly affiliated hospitals, 14 other affiliated hospitals including 2 clinical medical schools, 24 clinical teaching hospitals and 87 professional practice teaching bases. It has more than 21000 students of all types, including over 3000 master’s and doctoral students and nearly 400 international students. Its teaching, administrative, medical and nursing workforce exceeds 10700, including affiliated hospital personnel, with more than 1200 based at the main university. Among its 1531 full-time teachers, including clinical teachers at affiliated hospitals, 67.41% have senior professional titles. There are 139 doctoral supervisors and 1071 master’s supervisors.

The university began admitting international degree students in 1995. Its Overseas Education College was established in July 2008. In 2009, the Ministry of Education approved its admission of international students to the English-taught undergraduate clinical medicine program (MBBS). In 2011, it was approved as a host institution for Chinese Government Scholarship international students. In 2013, it passed the Ministry of Education’s special inspection and evaluation of undergraduate teaching in English-taught clinical medicine for international students.

The university currently has nearly 400 international students from more than 40 countries and regions. Education is available at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including master’s and doctoral study, with English and Chinese as languages of instruction.

Upholding the university motto, “Diligence, Rigor, Truth-Seeking and Innovation,” and the college motto, “Virtue, Broad Learning, Service to Humanity and Integration,” we pursue openness and promote regional and international exchange and cooperation. We make sustained efforts to educate outstanding medical professionals for countries around the world and contribute to building a community with a shared future for humanity.