In contemporary China, medical universities are named after medical schools with higher comprehensive strength than medical schools. When a general medical college meets or exceeds the requirements of a medical university, it may apply to the local education department and the Ministry of Education for upgrading to a medical university. At present, domestic medical universities include Capital Medical University, Southern Medical University, Tianjin Medical University, Harbin Medical University, Nanjing Medical University and China Medical University.
The basic requirement of Chinese mainland Medical University for full-time students is more than 8,000, and the number of graduate students is higher than 5% of the total number of full-time students.
In the humanities (philosophy, literature, history), social sciences (economics, law, education), science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, management and other disciplines, there are more than three disciplines as the main disciplines. Ordinary undergraduate majors in major disciplines cover more than three first-level disciplines in this discipline.
Full-time undergraduates in all disciplines are not less than 15% of the total number of full-time undergraduates in the school. There are 2 master's degree awarding points, and the total number of general undergraduate majors is more than 20.