Fudan University

Fudan University is a public university in Shanghai, China. The university is affiliated with the Ministry of Education and is co-funded with the Shanghai Municipal Government.

It was founded by the Chinese Jesuit priest Ma Xiangbo in 1905.

The university is part of Project 211, Project 985, and the Double First-Class Construction. The university is also a member of the C9 League.

History
The school's predecessor was Fudan Public School () founded in 1905, by the Chinese Jesuit priest Ma Xiangbo. It was one of the earliest privately-founded colleges and universities in China.

The predecessor of Shanghai Medical University was the Fourth National Sun Yat-sen University School of Medicine  founded in 1927. In 2000, Fudan University merged with Shanghai Medical University to form the new Fudan University.

Fudan has five undergraduate colleges – Zhide (志德), Tengfei (腾飞), Keqing (克卿), Renzhong (任重), and Xide (希德).

The university has four campuses in Shanghai – Handan (邯郸), Fenglin (枫林), Zhangjiang (张江), and Jiangwan (江湾) – which share the same central administration. It also has 17 affiliated hospitals.

Technology Innovation & scale up

 * Researchers successfully revived a human brain that had been frozen for as long as 18 months establishing a breakthrough in the field of cryonics.
 * The university set up a 1 billion yuan fund of funds for start up innovation besides launching what it claims to be China’s Largest Cloud-based Scientific Research Computing Platform CFFF.



Research output rankings
Regarding research output in natural science and life science, the Nature Index Research Leaders 2024 ranked Fudan the No.9 university in the Asia Pacific region, and 12th in the world among the global universities. The 2024 CWTS Leiden Ranking ranked Fudan 11th in the world based on their publications for the time period 2019–2022.

Notable alumni
Since 1952, Fudan University has a total of 95 academicians alumni, second only to Peking University and Tsinghua University in China. Fudan's notable alumni include Chen Yinke, Chen Wangdao, Chu Coching, Yan Fu, Yu Youren, Chen Zhili, and "China's Kissinger" Wang Huning.

Controversies
In December 2019, Fudan University changed its constitution, removing the phrase "academic independence and freedom of thought" (學術獨立和思想自由) and including a "pledge to follow the Communist party's leadership" (學校堅持中國共產黨的領導), leading to protests among the students. It also said that Fudan University had to "equip its teachers and employees" with "Xi Jinping Thought", leading to concerns about the diminishing academic freedom of Fudan.

The Hungarian government made an agreement to open the first campus of Fudan University outside China in Budapest in 2024. The expansion would cost 540 billion HUF, of which 450 billion would be paid by the Hungarian state from a Chinese loan. The construction would be mainly done by Chinese companies. Education professionals and politicians denounced the investment, citing economics, higher education and national security concerns.