Fudan University was founded in 1905, formerly known as Fudan College. The word "Fudan" was chosen by Mr. Ma, the founder of the school and a famous educator in modern China, from the famous sentence "Sun and Moon are bright, Fudan is brilliant" in The Great Biography of Shangshu. 19 17 was changed to a private Fudan university, which consists of three subjects: arts, science and business, as well as preparatory courses and middle schools. 1937 After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the school moved to Beibei, Chongqing, and 194 1 was changed to "national". 1946 moved back to the original site of Jiangwan, Shanghai. From 65438 to 0952, it has become a comprehensive science university and a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education through the adjustment of national universities. With the hard work and hard struggle of several generations of Fudan people, Fudan has gradually developed into a multi-disciplinary research-oriented comprehensive university, including humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, technical sciences and management sciences, since the 1980s, especially through the joint construction of the Ministry of Education and Shanghai and the key construction of the Seventh Five-Year Plan, the Eighth Five-Year Plan and the Ninth Five-Year Plan. On April 27th, 2000, Shanghai Medical University merged with Fudan University to form a new Fudan University. Today's Fudan University has more complete disciplines and stronger comprehensive strength.
The current president of Fudan University is Professor Wang, the party secretary is Professor Qin Shaode, and the honorary president is Professor Su, an academician of China Academy of Sciences.
Fudan university motto: "erudite and determined, ask more questions and think more"; School spirit: "civilization, health, unity and hard work"; Style of study: "assiduous, rigorous, realistic and innovative".
School of Journalism, School of Law, School of Economics, School of Management, School of Technology and Engineering, School of Life Sciences and Shanghai Medical College are all 14 full-time colleges, including 7 departments14, 67 bachelor's degree majors, 20 doctoral degree authorization points in first-class disciplines, two disciplines doctoral degree authorization points 103 and master's degree authorization points/. In addition, the school also has 7 1 research institute and1kloc-0/interdisciplinary research center. At present, there are more than 4 1.500 students in various schools at all levels, including more than 57 junior college students, more than 94,000 master's and doctoral students, and more than 600 foreign students.
At present, the school covers an area of nearly 140 hectares, with a building area exceeding1000000 square meters and fixed assets exceeding1300 million yuan. There are more than 130 laboratories in the school, including 5 national key laboratories, 7 key laboratories of the Ministry of Education and 5 key laboratories of the Ministry of Health. 7 key research bases of humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of Education; There are three libraries of literature, science and medicine, with a collection of 4 1.6 thousand volumes and more than 25,000 periodicals, all of which rank among the top universities in China.
Fudan University regards the cultivation of high-quality talents with all-round qualities as the fundamental goal of teaching. The school pays attention to proceeding from its own reality, boldly absorbs the successful experience of domestic and foreign universities, pays attention to strengthening the infiltration, intersection and combination of disciplines, and gives full play to the multi-disciplinary characteristics and advantages of comprehensive universities. After long-term practice and exploration, a relatively complete teaching plan and management system with its own characteristics has been established. Discipline construction has started in an all-round way and the development momentum is good. Under the principle of "general education and classified teaching" and the teaching philosophy of "thick foundation, wide caliber, emphasis on ability and innovation", the school organically combines the teaching contents of "general education, basic teaching and professional teaching", pays attention to personality development, and enables students to obtain systematic knowledge and practical training opportunities. The school attaches importance to the education of the second classroom, takes moral education as the core, and cultivates students' innovative ability and practical ability, with remarkable results. The quality of postgraduate education has been continuously improved, with the total number of excellent doctoral dissertations ranking third in China over the years, and the number of eight selected dissertations ranking first in China in 200 1 year. Since the establishment of Fudan University, it has trained nearly 200,000 graduates (including more than 30,000 graduates trained by the former Shanghai Medical University), and many outstanding talents have emerged, making outstanding contributions to national construction.
With the goal of building a world-class university, Fudan University has carried out innovative research on the frontier of basic science and applied science in many fields and achieved a number of important achievements. Among them, "research on some basic problems of polymer condensed state" won the second prize of national natural science; "Global Classical Solution of Nonlinear Hyperbolic Equation" won the third prize of National Natural Science; "Gene therapy for hemophilia B" won the second prize of national technological invention.
In clinical medical research, the clinical research of liver cancer and new laryngeal reconstruction has reached the international advanced level. In the research of humanities and social sciences, Fudan has won the top prize in all previous awards for outstanding achievements in philosophy and social sciences, among which Atlas of Chinese History, English-Chinese Dictionary and General History of China Literary Criticism won the special prize. Five achievements of Fudan University won the Excellent Achievement Award of the First National Philosophy and Social Science Fund Planning Project in 2000.
Fudan University has become one of the most influential academic centers in the world, with extensive and close international contacts and active academic exchange activities. It has established cooperation and exchange relations with more than 200 universities and research institutions in nearly 30 countries and regions, and awarded honorary doctors, honorary professors and consultant professors to more than 300 internationally renowned scholars and people. American President Reagan, French President Destin, Dutch Prime Minister Lubbers and Israeli Prime Minister Rabin all visited Fudan and delivered speeches. The school has participated in many international university organizations such as the Pacific Rim University Association and the East Asian Research University Association, and is one of the five directors of the 2 1 century university association. In recent years, it has established new inter-school relations with more than 10 foreign universities. Fudan school board is enthusiastic about school work, and the school receives strong financial support from the school board every year. Sunlight and Moonlight in Fudan, hua dan. With the key investment of the Ministry of Education and the Shanghai Municipal Government, Fudan University, a century-old school, strives to build itself into a world-class and high-level research-oriented comprehensive university based in Shanghai.