Fudan University

Established in 1905, Fudan was named after a quotation from a Confucian Classic, roughly translated as "Itinerant as the twilight, sunshine and moonlight", defining the University's motto to become "Rich in knowledge and tenacious of purpose, inquiring with earnestness and reflecting with self-practice". There are 27,000 full time students on campus, with 2,000 overseas students, over 2,200 faculty and more than 400 programmes of undergraduate and postgraduate study. The University has a number of research platforms in natural, medical and social sciences which are acknowledged by the Ministry of Education, along with five key national laboratories and nine affiliating hospitals.