Peking Union Medical College
Beijing · Medicine & Pharmacy
Top tier — Priority coverage — programs, tuition and English-taught options actively maintained; a full international admission profile is shown where available.
Beijing
Major city Metro Est. budget CNY 3,500–6,500 (USD 490–900) / month incl. dorm or shared flatThe national capital and the center of Chinese education, politics and culture, Beijing packs Peking University, Tsinghua and dozens of other universities into the Haidian campus belt alone. For international students it offers the widest choice of programs and scholarships in China, the largest foreign-student community, and unmatched access to embassies, international organizations, media and multinationals. Four thousand years of history — from the Forbidden City to the Great Wall — sit alongside a first-tier modern city.
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Academic strengths
China’s official discipline evaluation (MOE Degree Centre, 4th round, 2017): A+ ≈ top 2%, A ≈ top 2–5%. Methodology
| Double First-Class discipline | Evaluation |
|---|---|
| Basic Medicine | A+ |
| Pharmacy | A+ |
| Clinical Medicine | A |
| Biology | — |
All evaluated disciplines (9)
- Basic Medicine A+
- Pharmacy A+
- Clinical Medicine A
- Nursing A-
- Public Health B
- Chinese Materia Medica B-
- Integrative Medicine C+
- Information Management C
- Public Administration C-
What its badges mean
China’s elite university initiative (147 universities designated in the 2022 MOE list)
Data sources: university international-admission pages (linked above), MOE Double First-Class list (2022), MOE Degree Centre discipline evaluation (2017). Figures marked as typical ranges are editorial estimates, dated — per-source verification in progress — full data notes.