The school's predecessor was Fudan Public School (复旦公学) founded in 1905. It was one of the earliest privately-founded colleges and universities in China. The predecessor of Shanghai Medical University (上海医科大学) was the Fourth National Sun Yat-sen University School of Medicine (国立第四中山大学医学院) founded in 1927. In 2000, Fudan University merged with Shanghai Medical University to form the new Fudan University.[4][5]
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. The university is a member of the C9 League.
Regarding research output in natural science and life science, the Nature Index Annual Table 2023 ranked Fudan the No.9 university in the Asia Pacific region, and 13th in the world among the global universities.[18] The 2023 CWTS Leiden Ranking ranked Fudan 13th in the world based on their publications for the time period 2018–2021.[19]
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.[23][24] 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.[25][26]
The Hungarian government made an agreement to open the first campus of Fudan University outside China in Budapest in 2024.[27] 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.[28] Education professionals and politicians denounced the investment, citing economics, higher education and national security concerns.[29]
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^"Students protest at Shanghai's Fudan University". Asia Times. 19 December 2019. Retrieved 19 December 2019. A video circulating this week showed students at Shanghai's Fudan University singing the school song – which extols "academic independence and freedom of thought" – in an apparent protest.{...}Besides removing "freedom of thought", the ministry adds to the charter "arming the minds of teachers and students with Xi Jinping's new era of socialist ideology with Chinese characteristics". It also obliges faculty and students to adhere to "core socialist values" and build a "harmonious" campus environment – a code phrase for the elimination of anti-government sentiment.
^復旦大學章程刪除思想自由 學生唱校歌抗議要求學術獨立[影]. Central News Agency (in Chinese (Taiwan)). 18 December 2019. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
^"Freedom curbs raise academic collaboration uncertainty". University World News. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
^"Chinese Universities Are Enshrining Communist Party Control In Their Charters". NPR.org. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
^"2024-ben megnyílhat a sanghaji Fudan Egyetem budapesti campusa" (in Hungarian). Index.hu. 17 September 2020. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
^Balogh Krisztina (6 April 2021). "Egyre közelebb a kínai sztáregyetem Budapesthez" (in Hungarian). Index.hu. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
^Bozzay Balázs (12 April 2021). "Kínai titkosügynökökről kérdezett Ungár a parlamentben, az államtitkár szerint büszkék lehetünk, hogy a Fudan minket választott" (in Hungarian). Telex.hu. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
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