Fujian Medical University

Fujian Medical University was founded in 1937. After 80 years of development, it has become a provincial key construction university with a focus on medicine and coordinated development of multiple disciplines including science, management, law, literature and engineering. It has a system of undergraduate, master 's and doctoral education and integrates teaching, research, medical care, prevention and social services. Fujian Medical University is the center for training medical and health talents, the center for medical science research and the center for medical prevention and health care. In 2017, Shanghairanking Consultancy, a well-known domestic university ranking agency that mainly evaluates the quality of education and teaching, released the ranking of the best universities in China. Our university ranked 130th, second among provincial universities in Fujian Province. Over the past 80 years, the university has produced more than 100,000 medical talents for the country and the region, including Academician Chen Keji of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor Ping Chen of the Department of Immunology at Yale School of Medicine, the recipient of the 2017 Warren Alpert Award, and Professor Jiang Xiaoying, the recipient of the Nightingale Medal.

The school has two campuses, Shangjie and Taijiang, covering an area of about 1,500 mu, with a total building area of more than 420,000 square meters. It has 20 colleges and 26 regular undergraduate programs. There are currently 2 first-level disciplines (covering 25 second-level disciplines) and 2 second-level disciplines with the right to confer doctoral degrees; There are 8 first-level disciplines (covering 52 second-level disciplines) and 1 second-level discipline with master's degree authorization. 6 disciplines with master's professional degree granting authority. There are two postdoctoral research stations in clinical medicine and basic medicine, and three academicians' workstations. The university has six directly affiliated hospitals, 14 non-directly affiliated hospitals (including two clinical medical colleges), 24 clinical teaching hospitals and 87 professional practice teaching bases, forming a relatively complete network of clinical teaching and practice teaching bases. The school has more than 21,000 students of all kinds (including over 3,000 postgraduate students and nearly 400 international students) and more than 10,700 staff members (including affiliated hospitals), of which there are over 1,200 at the main campus. Of the 1,531 full-time teachers (including clinical teachers in affiliated hospitals), 67.41 percent have senior professional titles. There are 139 doctoral supervisors and 1,071 master's supervisors.

Our university has been enrolling international students for academic degrees since 1995. The College of Overseas Education was established in July 2008. In 2009, it was approved by the Ministry of Education to start enrolling international students for the English-taught undergraduate Clinical Medicine (MBBS) program. In 2011, it was approved by the Ministry of Education as a recipient of Chinese government scholarships for international students. In 2013, it passed the Ministry of Education's special inspection and evaluation of undergraduate teaching in clinical medicine (taught in English) for international students.

At present, our university has nearly 400 international students from more than 40 countries and regions. Undergraduate and postgraduate (master's and doctoral) programs are offered in English and Chinese.

We uphold the school motto of "Diligence, Rigor, truthfulness, Innovation" and the college motto of "Virtue, Learning, Benefit, Integration", adhere to the open educational philosophy, enhance exchanges and cooperation among regions and internationally, and make unremitting efforts to cultivate outstanding medical talents for the world and promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind.