Weifang Medical College (WMC) was founded in 1951, and it is now an advanced provincial medical college. For more than 50 years, it has combined medicine with other disciplines, including medical management, law, sciences, and arts. And it has established a multidisciplinary, multi-stylish, and multifunctional educating model. WMC now can confer bachelor and master degree, and it can also enroll foreign students. WMC now has more than 1 million square meters area, of which 30% is construction area.

It has more than 800 faculties and staff, including more than 400 professors and 300 instructors with doctoral or master’s degree. WMC has 5 schools: medical school, public health school, professional school, international exchange student medical school, and school of clinical medicine of Ukraine.

WMC offers 21 majors, including clinical medicine, dental health, nursing, anesthesiology, radiology/imaging science, laboratory diagnosis, preventive medicine, pharmacology, public health, labor and social prevention, marketing, law, applied psychology, statistics, biotechnology, and English. Master’s degree is offered in 17 different research areas, which include physiology, immunology, pharmacology, anatomy, histology, pathology, microbiology, internal medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, ophthalmology, otolaryngology, medical imaging and nuclear medicine, anesthesiology, epidemiology and hygienic statistics, sociological medicine and the public health management, and applied psychology.

Currently, there are around 500 full time graduate students, 800 professional graduate students, 11,000 full time undergraduates, 160 from who are foreign students, and 12,000 part time professional students. WMC can confer a master’s degree to professionals if they acquire enough credits, and can also confer a clinical medicine master’s degree.

WMC is the only provincial college that can hold the nursing upgrading examination from associate degree to bachelor degree. WMC has one provincial intensively supported Department, and two provincial advanced Departments, two provincial core laboratories, two provincial advanced clinical Departments, two Departments with provincial leading-investigators, and eight province-level laboratories. WMC has also established one cutting edge educational technology center, one medical research center, one computation center, and one research animal facility. In addition, it owns several diversified intensive laboratories of morphology, functionality, chemical analysis, clinical technology, computation, and human anatomy.

Totally, WMC owns around 8,000 educational and research instruments, which are worth around 70 million RMB. Its library maintains around 900,000 books, and 3,000 Chinese and foreign language journals. WMC has 10 comprehensive affiliated hospitals, 45 teaching hospitals, and more than 20 teaching sites. WMC publishes two periodicals named Weifang Medical Study Periodical and the Journal of Weifang Medical College.