Fudan University was established in 1905, initially named Fudan Public School. Its name “Fudan“ was taken from a famous line in the Confucian Classic The Book of History: "Brilliant are the sunshine and moonlight, again the morning glory after a night".

Fudan University is a comprehensive university. It comprises 17 full-time schools, 69 departments, 73 bachelor“s degree programs, 22 disciplines and 134 sub-disciplines authorized to confer Ph. D. degrees, 201 master degree programs, 6 professional degree programs, 7 Key Social Science Research Centers of Ministry of Education P.R.C, 9 National Basic Science Research and Training Institutes and 25 post-doctoral research stations. It has 40 national key disciplines granted by the Ministry of Education P.R.C, nationally third. At present, it compasses 77 research institutes, 112 cross-disciplinary research institutes and 5 national key laboratories.

Now, Fudan University enrolls over 45,000, including full-time students and students in Continuing Education and Online Education. Also, there“re as many as 2,400 students from overseas, only next to Beijing Language and Culture University.

Fudan University owns a high-level research faculty of over 2,400 full-time teachers and researchers, including 1,350 professors and associate professors, 24 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Also, Fudan University has 8 teaching hospitals, integrating medical service, medicine education and research.

Fudan University“s main objective is to cultivate all-round talents. Basing on its practical condition, it draws a lot of successful experience from other universities in home and abroad and puts emphasis on integration, cross and combination of different principals to exert the feature and advantage of complex university. With long-term practice and exploration, it has set up a complete and distinguished education program and management system.