Wenzhou Medical University (WMU) is a key institution of higher learning under the direct administration of Zhejiang Provincial Government. It can trace its origin to the former Zhejiang Specialized Medical School established in Hangzhou in 1912. In August 1958, a group of faculty were sent from Hangzhou to Wenzhou to help build up Zhejiang Second Medical College, which was ever since renamed Wenzhou Medical College after the city it is located.

Now WMU has a primary discipline doctoral program of Clinical Medicine and a postdoctoral research station. There’re 8 primary discipline master’s degree programs and 5 professional master’s programs. WMU is entitled to recommend her fresh graduates to further study for master’s degree by exempting them from the National Graduate Admission Test. WMU boasts one state key laboratory and 8 provincial or ministerial key laboratories (research centers), 4 provincial Top Priority programs and 10 provincial key programs.

WMU has over 8000 faculty and staff members, including the academic appointments of the affiliated hospitals, of whom over 1200 hold senior professional titles. In recent years, a host of scholars have been selected in the lists of "Talent Projects", governmental programs or fund aimed to foster high-level professional manpower to implement the national scientific strategy in the new century, such as the national “Thousand-Talents Project” and “ Yangtze Fund Scholars”. Composed of four campuses, WMU covers a total area of 120 acres with a building space of 510,000 ㎡.The college library has a collection of 1,380,000 volumes.

WMU is now oriented towards establishing a prestigious university with its own distinctive features, an institution that lays emphasis on the undergraduate education while actively developing graduate programs, maintaining medical-related disciplines as its core harmonized by multi-disciplinary programs adapted to both regional and national needs.