Shanghai Study Abroad - Fudan University. The beginning of the 20th century saw the birth of what is today the prestigious University of Fudan. Since 1905, in association with the Fudan Public School, this institution started a path that has led it to become one of the most prestigious universities in China.
In 1917, Fudan Public School began to offer undergraduate programs and officially renamed itself "Fudan University."
Fudan became one of the national elite universities after the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949. At the request of Chen Wang-dao, the first post-liberation president of Fudan, Chairman Mao Ze Dong of the CPC handwrote the name of the University. Since the beginning of New China, Fudan has seized three golden opportunities for further development, thanks to the CPC and the People's Government.
The latest transcendent event occurred is the official merger with Shanghai Medical University on 27th, April, 2000, from which a new Fudan was born. For the first time has the University had its own college for medical sciences. Better equipped and more robust, Fudan is one step further today toward its ambitious aim of becoming a leading university in the world.
Currently, the University consists of of 17 schools which provide academic programs (more than 60 undergraduate programs, about 150 masters and over 100 PhD) to over 35,000 students.
Chinese language courses are amongst the most demanded outside of Beijing and the University's population of foreign students is currently 2,812.
