Second Military Medical University

People's Liberation Army Naval Medical University
中国人民解放军海军军医大学
Former names
People's Medical College of the East China Military Commanding Region
Typepublic university
EstablishedSeptember 1949 (1949)
AffiliationPeople's Liberation Army Navy
Location
Shanghai
,
China
CampusUrban area 670,000 square metres (7,211,820 sq ft)
Websitehttp://www.smmu.edu.cn/
Second Military Medical University
Simplified Chinese中国人民解放军海军军医大学
Traditional Chinese中國人民解放軍海軍軍醫大學

The People's Liberation Army Naval Medical University (中国人民解放军海军军医大学), also known as the PLA Second Military Medical University (SMMU) (中国人民解放军第二军医大学), is a public university in Shanghai, China. It was founded in September 1949 and named in July 1951. It is a national key university supported by the state Project 211. It is a Chinese state Double First Class University, included in the national Double First Class University Plan.[1]

It was previously called People's Medical College of the East China Military Commanding Region. The building is adjacent to Fudan University and Tongji University and covers an area of nearly 1.1 square kilometres (270 acres). The premises have a total floor space of over 670,000 square metres (7,211,820 sq ft), including a complex of modern teaching buildings, a library, an experiment building and teaching hospitals of the first rate in China. The library itself covers an area over 11,000 square metres (118,403 sq ft) with a collection of over 500,000 book volumes.

Rankings

As of 2022, the Second Military Medical University is ranked between the top 601-700 among world universities according to the Academic Ranking of World Universities.[2]

Affiliated hospitals

  • Changhai Hospital (First Affiliated hospital)
  • Changzheng Hospital (Second Affiliated hospital)
  • Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital (Third Affiliated hospital)

References

  1. "教育部 财政部 国家发展改革委 关于公布世界一流大学和一流学科建设高校及建设 学科名单的通知" [Notice from the Ministry of Education and other national governmental departments announcing the list of double first class universities and disciplines]. Ministry of Education.
  2. "ShanghaiRanking-Univiersities". www.shanghairanking.com. Retrieved 2022-11-29.
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