MBBS in China RegisterNo official top 10: what can be compared between listed medical schools from official sources
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There is no official top 10 of medical universities in China. The Ministry of Education's list for the 2023–2024 academic year names 44 universities for English-taught undergraduate clinical medicine, and its annex prints them in an order that this register does not treat as a ranking. For each school, official sources can show whether it is on that list, its 2023–2024 enrolment plan, its administering body in the national list, and whether the second-round Double First-Class annex has an entry under the same Chinese name and for which disciplines; this register's section page follows that list.
What the Ministry list is
The list is set out in a notice of the General Office of the Ministry of Education, 教外厅函〔2023〕10号 (Notice of the General Office of the Ministry of Education on the 2023–2024 list of higher education institutions enrolling international students in English-taught undergraduate clinical medicine and their enrolment plan). The notice is dated 15 May 2023 and was published on the Ministry's site on 30 May 2023.
Paragraph 1 of the notice says that the Ministry entrusted 44 universities to enrol international students in this programme in 2023–2024, with 3,048 places in total. It says the universities and the number of places were determined after taking into account past enrolment and each university's daily teaching and management of medical education for international students. Paragraph 1 names these two factors and no others.
The English in this section and in the annex sections below is this site's translation of the Chinese text.
What the annex prints
The annex to the notice has three columns: 序号 (number), 学校 (institution, in Chinese), and 2023—2024学年招生计划数 (enrolment plan for 2023–2024). Its total row, 合计, shows 3048.
The annex has no column for fees. It has no column for an entry requirement, a deadline or a score.
The annex lists universities by their Chinese names. The English names used in this article and across this register are the common English names this register uses; the annex does not print them.
Row 11 of the annex carries the bracket 含境外办学, which the annex's own text gives as "including programmes run outside China."
The order of the rows is the order the Ministry printed them in. The notice does not describe that order as a ranking.
What official sources show for each school
For each of the 44 universities, the following can be read from official sources:
- Whether it is listed in the annex for 2023–2024.
- Its enrolment plan for 2023–2024, as printed in the annex.
- Its administering body and place, from the Ministry's national list of higher education institutions as of 17 June 2026. This list is a separate Ministry document from the annex.
- Whether the second-round Double First-Class annex, dated 9 February 2022, has an entry under the same Chinese name, and which disciplines that entry prints.
A Double First-Class entry concerns the disciplines printed in that entry. It is not a statement about the English-taught clinical medicine programme in the annex.
What this site counted
The counts below are this site's own counts from the rows of the annex, matched to the national list. They are not figures printed in any official document.
Annex rows by administering body (counted by this site):
| Administering body (national list) | Annex rows counted |
|---|---|
| Ministry of Education | 11 |
| Jiangsu Province | 6 |
| Liaoning Province | 3 |
| Guangdong Province | 3 |
| Zhejiang Province | 2 |
| Sichuan Province | 2 |
| Beijing Municipality | 1 |
| Tianjin Municipality | 1 |
| Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region | 1 |
| Central United Front Work Department | 1 |
| Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region | 1 |
| Chongqing Municipality | 1 |
| Heilongjiang Province | 1 |
| Jilin Province | 1 |
| Shandong Province | 1 |
| Hebei Province | 1 |
| Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region | 1 |
| Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps | 1 |
| Fujian Province | 1 |
| Anhui Province | 1 |
| Hubei Province | 1 |
| Henan Province | 1 |
| Yunnan Province | 1 |
The 11 schools whose administering body is the Ministry of Education are, in annex order: Jilin University, Shandong University, Fudan University, Zhejiang University, Wuhan University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Sichuan University, Tongji University, Southeast University and Xiamen University.
Counted by this site, 19 of the 44 schools have an entry under the same Chinese name in the second-round Double First-Class annex, and 25 have none.
Of those 19 entries, 7 print 临床医学 (Clinical Medicine) among their disciplines. In annex order, these are Tianjin Medical University, Shandong University, Fudan University, Zhejiang University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Zhengzhou University and Guangzhou Medical University.
What the figures cannot show
The annex order is not a ranking. The size of a school's 2023–2024 plan is not a quality score. An administering body is not a quality score. A Double First-Class entry is not a quality score, and it refers to the disciplines printed in that entry only.
The enrolment plans come from the factors named in paragraph 1 of the notice: past enrolment and each university's daily teaching and management of medical education for international students.
This register does not rank, recommend or order these universities by any of the figures above.
Questions people ask
Is there an official top 10 of medical universities in China?
None of the documents used on this page ranks the schools. The annex lists 44 universities in the order the Ministry printed them, and this register does not treat that order as a ranking.
Does the annex show tuition or other fees?
The annex has three columns: number, institution and enrolment plan for 2023–2024. It has no column for fees.
Is the 2023–2024 list the current list?
The list is for the 2023–2024 academic year. The Ministry's policy index listed no later edition when this site read it on 11 October 2026. Confirm the current year's status with the university and the Ministry.
Sources
- Annex to 教外厅函〔2023〕10号: list of institutions and enrolment plan, 2023–2024 — Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China (General Office)
- 教外厅函〔2023〕10号: Notice on the 2023–2024 list and enrolment plan — Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China (General Office)
- 出国、来华留学政策文件 (policy index) — Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China
Checked 11 October 2026.
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