Binzhou Medical University (BMU) is a public provincial university of applied sciences, co-constructed by Shandong Provincial Education Department and local municipal governments. It has been granted the approval to be a doctoral degree-conferring institute by Shandong Province. Its predecessor is the Medical School of National Shandong University originally established in 1946. In March 1956, the Medical School became independent as Qingdao Medical College and moved to Beizhen, Huimin area in October 1970. In November 1974, Beizhen Branch of Qingdao Medical College was established and in September 1981 it was renamed as Beizhen Medical College. In March 1983, it took on its current name Binzhou Medical University after the name of city it was in. Now, BMU enjoys two campus in Yantai and Binzhou. BMU has combined multiple disciplines of medicine, science, management, engineering and education, with medicine and pharmacy disciplines being its advantages and the higher education for the disabled and rehabilitation medicine being its features.

Enrollment 

BMU has over 16,636 full-time students, including over 14,277 undergraduates and 2,359 postgraduates. The university has enrollment plans in 31 provinces (cities and autonomous regions) and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan regions of China. So far, it has 141 overseas students. BMU covers a total area of 1646 mu (1 mu equates 1/15 hectare) and a total building area of 769,000 square meters. Its national owned assets reach RMB 2.017 billion yuan, and the value of teaching and research facilities reaches RMB 534 million yuan. The university library has over 1.8 million volume of paper collection and 4.20 million volume of electronic collection. BMU enjoys 14 affiliated hospitals and 180 teaching and practicing bases. Now the university has 16 schools, namely, School of Marxism, the First School of Clinical Medicine, the Second School of Clinical Medicine, School of Basic Medical Sciences, School of Special Education and Rehabilitation, School of Stomatology, School of Nursing (School of Gerontology), Teaching Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, School of Pharmacy, School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, School of Public Health, School of Health Management, School of International Studies, School of Medical Imaging, School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship and School of Continuing Education.

School Development Structure

In recent years, the school development structure and the comprehensive competitiveness of BMU have been enhanced, forming a school development structure of “Two Advantages and Two Features”. “Two Advantages” refers to the outstanding advantage of clinical medicine and Pharmacy. Clinical Medicine, which focusing on the development of “New Medicine”, is selected to be a national first-class undergraduate program at national level and it is a national featured program. Clinical Medicine is also listed in the Program Matching Industry Project of Education Serving Transformation of Old and New Growth Drivers in Shandong province. Clinical Medicine discipline is selected to be a first-class discipline and a high-level discipline of Shandong province and has entered 2.553‰ in ESI ranking. Pharmacy, which adhering to the road of production-education-research-application integration, was selected to be a first-class program of Shandong province and a key supporting program by provincial finance. The Rongchang Industry Institute co-constructed by BMU and Rongchang Pharmaceuticals was included in the list of the first batch of Shandong modern industry institute, undertaking national and provincial special project on significant new drugs development and provincial special project on self-independent innovation and achievements commercialization. BMU also co-constructed a provincial key laboratory of “TCM Pharmocology Modernization and New Dosage Form Development” with Xianglong Group. The discipline of Pharmacy was selected to be a high-level discipline in Shandong province and the Pharmacology and Toxicology discipline has entered 5.389‰ in ESI ranking. The discipline of Chemistry has entered 7.695% in ESI ranking. The discipline of Biology and Biochemistry has entered 1%. “Two Features” refers to the higher education for the disabled and rehabilitation medicine. In 1985, Binzhou Medical University started the first undergraduate program in China that was especially designed for the disabled, which marked the beginning of medical education for the disabled in China. In 2012, the university took the initiative to recruit students with visual impairment and in 2018, the university started to recruit students with hearing impairment, which filled in the gaps of undergraduate programs of students with visual or hearing impairment among medical universities. In nearly 40 years' development, BMU has created its own model of teaching the disabled and healthy students together, combining teaching and rehabilitation in the education for the disabled students and putting knowledge into practice for talent cultivation of the disabled and has cultivated 1,289 disabled medical graduates, making positive contributions for our country’s development. BMU has been working hard on the innovative development of higher education on rehabilitation medicine, forming a domestically advanced and provincially comprehensive “Great Rehabilitation” system with the collaborative development of medicine, teaching and rehabilitation. Now, BMU serves as the National Higher Education Basis for the Disabled, the Standardized Training Basis for Blind Medical Massage and Standardized Training Basis for Rehabilitation Physician with the honorable titles of “National Advanced unit for Helping Persons with Disabilities” and “National Advanced Unit for Special Education”.

Talent Cultivation

BMU insists on taking high moral value establishment in talent cultivation as the fundamental task and setting talent cultivation as the working center. BMU puts into practices its university dictum of “benevolent and skillful”, promotes its school spirit of “factualism, solidarity, preciseness and innovation,” and practices its teaching spirit of “imparting knowledge and cultivating people, serving as role models, adopting rigorous scholarship and dedicating to teaching” and its learning spirit of “advocating science, seeking the truth, studying diligently and keeping faith”. Over the past 50 years, BMU has made positive contributions to society and our country by cultivating more than 197,000 talents in medicine and medicine-related fields, who have become great academics, leading figures and elites in the fields and primary medical staffs and are known for their “pragmatic style, solid foundation and diligent work ethic”, such as Prof. Meng Xiangjin, who is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. 

Education and Teaching

We have 13 national first-class courses, 48 provincial first-class undergraduate courses, four provincial teaching demonstration centers, three provincial demonstration practice training bases and one provincial talents cultivation innovation experimental zone. In the past five years, BMU has undertaken one New Liberal Arts Research and Reform Practice Program by Ministry of Education, 259 Industry-university Cooperative Education Projects, 108 provincial teaching reform programs and education sciences planning programs, won 25 awards above provincial level, including two national teaching achievements award, one provincial special prize and eight provincial first prizes. BMU owns one second prize of First National Textbooks Construction Award, one 14th five-year national planned textbook on vocational education among the first batch, six First-Class Textbooks of Higher Education of Shandong Province and two 14th five-year provincial planned textbooks on vocational education among the first batch. BMU gained excellent results in the national undergraduate teaching level assessment in 2006 and passed the national undergraduate teaching evaluation in 2016. It is among the first batch of pilot institutions carrying out the comprehensive reform on undergraduate programs in the Teaching Projects for Undergraduates of the Ministry of Education and is approved to be the institution of reform on the Plan of Educating and Training for Outstanding Doctors (Traditional Chinese Medicine). Now, BMU serves as the standardized training basis for residents (including dental residents and TCM residents) at national level, the training basis for nursing talents and clinical pharmacists and the cultivation basis for general practitioners.

Discipline and Specialty

BMU has 34 undergraduate programs, including Clinical Medicine, Stomatology, Nursing, Pediatrics, Pharmacy, Rehabilitation Therapy, Bio-pharmaceuticals and Intelligent Medical Engineering. Among them, 28 are first-class programs at provincial or above level and 22 are on the list of 2024 Chinese programs ranking by Shanghai Ranking. Clinical Medicine, Stomatology and Nursing were selected to be national first-class undergraduate program, Clinical Medicine, Stomatology and Nursing and Biotechnology are national characteristic programs and the program groups of Clinical Medicine, Medical Imaging, Pharmacy and TCM were selected to be high-level application-oriented program groups. BMU firstly gained national accreditation of Medical Education among Shandong universities with six years validity in 2013 and was approved to extend certification period to ten years in 2020. In 2022, the Prosthetics and Orthotics Engineering Programme was accredited by ISPO, with three years of validity. In 2024, the Physical Therapy Rehabilitation Programme was accredited by WP, with five years of validity. BMU has eight first-level disciplines conferring master’s degree and 11 professional master’s degree programs. Four disciplines of BMU ranked top 1‰ in ESI ranking. Clinical Medicine, Pharmacy, Nursing ranked top 50% of the 2024 Chinese Best Programs by Shanghai Ranking. Besides, BMU ranks 26 in the 2025 Chinese Universities in Medicine and Pharmacy fields by Shanghai Ranking. There are three national key clinical specialties, 37 provincial key clinical specialties and seven key disciplines belonging to directly affiliated hospitals.

Scientific Research 

BMU is one of the scientific and technological achievements commercialization and technology transfer bases for Shandong universities and is approved to be a comprehensive unit of technological achievements commercialization in Shandong province. Over the past 5 years, BMU has been responsible for over 1,700 research projects, including 112 projects at national level and 300 projects at ministerial and provincial-level. It has been awarded 28 prizes of scientific and technological achievements at ministerial and provincial-level and 19 prizes by national associations, such as Chinese Medical Association. There are one key laboratory of State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, four key laboratories at provincial level, one provincial technology innovation center, one industry innovation research institute, nine provincial engineering research centers, one provincial ocean technology engineering collaboration innovation center, one provincial-municipal Shandong key laboratory nurturing base, one provincial university humanities research base and 49 bureau level research platforms. More than 5800 papers that were published on SCI, CSSCI and Chinese core journals and so on. The university has 400 patents, including 210 patents for invention. BMU participated the R&D process of China’s first domestically developed Disitamab vedotin, an original ADC anticancer drugs, which is approved for the market and currently edits and publishes two academic journals: Chinese Journal of Hospital Statistics and Journal of Binzhou Medical University, both journals are published home and abroad.

Teaching Faculty

There are altogether 7793 faculty members working in Binzhou Medical University and its affiliated hospitals. Among the faculty members, 2,042 have senior professional titles. BMU now has 25 national level talents, such as Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, six “National Renowned Teachers”, nine young and middle aged experts with great contributions in Shandong, one chief experts of key disciplines, ten provincial renowned teachers, one provincial excellent teacher and one experts enjoy the use of Provincial Special Allowance. Besides, there are one national Huang Danian style teaching team, three provincial Huang Danian style teaching teams, five provincial teaching teams and 30 provincial scientific research team.

Exchanges and Cooperation

BMU has successfully held the China-Germany Joint Education Program on Rehabilitation Therapy for undergraduates and has introduced 11 course of German Sports and Health University. It has established friendly ties and cooperation with international and domestic higher education and medical institutions, namely, German Sports and Health University, Tver State University, Saint Joseph’s University, Victoria University of Wellington, University of Southern Denmark, Peking University, Fudan University, Zhejiang University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University and major pharmaceutical companies, namely, MEBO Company, Ottobock (China), Rongchang Pharmaceuticals and Shandong International Biotechnology Park. Besides, BMU has joined ten international cooperation platforms. Considerable achievements have been made in terms of educational resources sharing, visiting scholars exchanges, research programs, joint education program and collaborative innovation.

(the Version of May, 2025)