QS ranking profile
Fudan University
This page presents clearly labeled QS ranking data for orientation. It does not verify programs, supervisors, funding, admission requirements, or the university's website.
- QS 2026 rank
- #30
- Up 9 places since 2025
- QS 2025 rank
- #39
- Overall score
- 88.4
Explore opportunities at Fudan University
Browse active research positions, doctoral fellowships, and university funding calls indexed from official faculties and verified sources.
QS indicators
Reported ranking indicators
Each indicator is scored out of 100 in the same QS snapshot as the summary above.
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Institution profile
How QS classifies this institution
QS groups institutions by size, subject range, and research output.
- Size
- Extra large
- More than 30,000 students
- Subject range
- Focused
- Teaches a limited range of faculty areas
- Research intensity
- Very high
- Very high research output in the QS classification
- Region
- Asia
- QS regional grouping
University profile
About Fudan University
Editorial background written for orientation. Verify programs, funding, and admission on the university's official pages.
A broad faculty structure with distinct research homes
Fudan University describes an academic structure that spans philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, medicine, management, and arts. Its official information also identifies schools and departments, affiliated hospitals, and a separate set of faculties. For a STEM applicant, the important point is not the size of the list. It is that a broad institution can place related work in several different academic homes. A question in computational health, materials, data, environmental systems, or another applied area may connect to science or engineering, but it may also sit beside medicine, management, or a cross-disciplinary platform. Start by finding the smallest unit that owns the subject, then follow its current work rather than stopping at the university overview.
The university's faculty and research pages separate humanities and social sciences from science, engineering, and medicine while also referring to institutes, platforms, projects, and research administration. That separation is useful for reading the site. A faculty page gives the broad disciplinary setting; a department, institute, or laboratory page is more likely to show the methods, people, and active questions behind a possible research route. If your interest crosses fields, do not assume that an institutional connection automatically creates a study path. Look for the units that actually describe joint work, shared facilities, or current projects in the area you want to pursue.
Reading research context without overgeneralising
Fudan's official pages describe research activity through schools, departments, affiliated hospitals, institutes, and other platforms. The humanities and social sciences material also refers to research institutes, research bases, and work that links social questions with frontier technologies. This does not mean that every field follows the same model. It does show why a prospective researcher should check the local organisation of a subject. A department may be the main academic home in one area, while an institute, hospital-linked unit, or research platform may play a more central role in another. Mapping those relationships before making a shortlist can prevent a broad university profile from being mistaken for a description of one research group.
The university's history and Shanghai setting provide useful background, but they should not replace present-day evidence. For current research fit, read recent department news, group pages, staff profiles, and project descriptions alongside the institutional overview. Ask simple questions: what problem is the group working on now, what tools or materials appear in its work, and where does a student fit into that structure? Keep a distinction between an area that appears on a university page and a research direction that is visibly active in the unit you are considering. This will make later comparisons clearer and reduce the risk of writing a generic statement that does not connect to a real academic home.
Building a precise research shortlist
A focused Fudan shortlist entry should begin with an academic question, not a general interest in a large university. Identify the faculty, school, department, or institute that relates to the question, then find a small number of people or groups whose current work is relevant. Record the terms the unit uses to describe the topic, because these are often more useful than broad labels. If the work is connected to medicine, engineering, science, or an interdisciplinary platform, note that relationship and check which unit has responsibility for the academic route.
Use the official university material as a map and programme-level information as the final check for your own path. Institutional pages can show the range of faculties and research settings, but they cannot answer every question about a specific subject. Confirm current details directly with the relevant school, department, or research unit before relying on them. The QS information above is university-level data with a clear source and year. It is not a judgement about every field at Fudan University or a substitute for checking the current setting of the research you want to do.