Fudan University was established in 1905 as Fudan Public School, which the university describes as the first institution of higher education founded by a Chinese person, and was renamed Fudan University in 1917. It merged with Shanghai Medical University in 2000 and was selected for China’s Double First-Class University Plan in 2017. It has four campuses: Handan, Fenglin, Zhangjiang and Jiangwan.
The university has 11 faculties, from philosophy to arts, made up of 35 schools or departments, and 17 affiliated hospitals, four of them under construction. Its English About page, last updated on 1 May 2019, lists 13,623 undergraduates and associate degree candidates, 22,610 graduate students, 3,672 international students and 3,110 full-time teaching faculty and researchers. JIN Li is President, and QIU Xin chairs the University Council.