Fudan University
Fudan University (FDU) consists of seventeen schools (which comprise sixty-six departments) and four independent departments: Physics, Chemistry, Macromolecular Science, and Environmental Science and Engineering. FDU now has an enrolment of 25,000 full-time degree candidates. Another 11,000 are studying at the schools of Continuing Education and Online Education. Besides, the University's population of foreign students ranks second in the whole country, which has reached 1,650 to date.The single and solitary goal of FDU is to cultivate more and more all-round talents for modern China. Emulating the other successful institutions of tertiary and quaternary education at home and abroad, the University has been carrying out a series of daring experiments to integrate the various disciplines of learning and to utilize the abundant resources of a comprehensive university. After years of exploring and practicing, FDU has now established its own curriculum and management system, both of which are unique and progressively improving.
Fudan University has a strong tradition in education and research of polymer science for more than 40 years (its polymer division of the chemical department was one of the earliest units for polymer discipline in China). The Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers (LMEP), under the Department of Macromolecular Science, distinguishes itself as one of the top institutes in China for polymer research and is a Key Laboratory of the Chinese Ministry of Education (CME). With a group of qualified personnel (most of them spent some years of their research experiences abroad) and good analytical equipment, they lead top-quality research on fundamental as well as application oriented polymer research. The Department of Macromolecular Science has been a participant and co-ordinator of more than 60 national and international research projects within the past three years. Since it has competent faculties and comprehensive facilities, it becomes an important base for training scientists and engineers in Macromolecular Science and conducting scientific research in this discipline.