University of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

Introduction to the University of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

The University of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences is a public undergraduate university sponsored by the People's Government of Shandong Province, with support from the Ministry of Education, the China Disabled Persons' Federation, the National Health Commission, and the Qingdao Municipal Government. The university was officially approved for establishment by the Ministry of Education on May 30, 2024, and is positioned as a new-type research university focusing on basic and frontier scientific and technological research and cultivating top-notch innovative talents. It is located in Qingdao, Shandong Province.

Grounded in serving national strategies, the university has been successively included in the Outline of the 13th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development of the People's Republic of China, the Outline of the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021–2025) for National Economic and Social Development and the Long-Range Objectives Through the Year 2035 of the People's Republic of China, and the Outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development of the People's Republic of China. Adhering to a global vision, international standards, and Chinese characteristics, and upholding the educational philosophy of "a high starting point, a high level, and internationalization," the university is dedicated to serving the cause of persons with disabilities, actively responding to population aging, and promoting health for all people across the full life cycle and in all dimensions. It is committed to cultivating interdisciplinary top-notch innovative talents who possess advanced rehabilitation concepts and a spirit of independent innovation and who can lead the development of the rehabilitation cause. The university has carried out strategic cooperation with institutions including Peking University, Shandong University, Beihang University, Sichuan University, Fudan University, Peking Union Medical College, Laoshan Laboratory, Guangzhou Laboratory, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine), and the China Rehabilitation Research Center. The university began jointly training graduate students in 2020 and has enrolled a total of 316 doctoral students and 525 master's students.

Demand-oriented and grounded in frontier interdisciplinary fields, the university practices new medicine, new engineering, and new liberal arts, and is actively building a comprehensive rehabilitation disciplinary and program system led by health promotion, with medicine, science, and engineering as the main body and coordinated development of management, education, sociology, and other cross-domain multidisciplinary fields. The university has five schools (departments): the School of Rehabilitation Science and Engineering, the School of Life Sciences and Health, the School of Social Development, the School of Clinical Medicine, and the Department of General Education (School of Marxism). The university offers seven undergraduate programs: Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Clinical Medicine, Biomedical Engineering, Bioinformatics, Neuroscience, and Intelligent Medical Engineering. It enrolled its first undergraduate students in 2024. Undergraduate students have achieved outstanding results in competitions such as the Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM).

The university has assembled a high-level faculty. High-level talents such as academicians and National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars recipients account for more than one-fifth of the faculty; those with associate senior or higher professional titles account for more than half; those with doctoral degrees account for more than ninety percent; and those who graduated from domestic "Double First-Class" universities or have overseas study or work experience account for more than eighty percent. The university has four affiliated hospitals: Qingdao Central Hospital, University of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (established in 1953; a Class A tertiary general hospital), Qingdao Hospital, University of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (established in 1916; a Class A tertiary general hospital), the Shandong Rehabilitation Center Affiliated to the University of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (established in 1953), and Qingdao Rehabilitation Hospital, University of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (a Class A tertiary specialized hospital). The university has established provincial and ministerial-level research platforms such as the Key Laboratory of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Functional Reconstruction, the Key Laboratory of Neurorehabilitation, and the Sports Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center, as well as the Rehabilitation International Global Cooperation Research Center and the Rehabilitation International Global Autism Research Center. It has carried out strategic cooperation with well-known enterprises such as Haier Group, BGI Group, Qingdao Baheal Pharmaceutical Group, and Weigao Group to promote scientific and technological innovation and the commercialization of scientific and technological achievements. It has launched Engineering Health and Rehabilitation Engineering, a sub-journal of Engineering, a journal of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Focusing on serving the high-quality development of the rehabilitation cause, the university actively integrates into the development of "China's Health Bay." With the goal of cultivating new quality productive forces in the rehabilitation field, it vigorously advances industry-education integration and science-education convergence, strives to gather first-class faculty, build first-class disciplines, cultivate first-class talents, and produce first-class results, actively explores a new-type research university model, and makes due contributions to promoting national high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and strength, serving national and regional economic and social development, and advancing the building of a Healthy China and an Education Powerhouse.

Contact Us

Address: No. 369 Dengyun Road, Qingdao High-tech Zone, Shandong Province
Tel: 0532-57787025
Admissions Hotline: 0532-57787777
Recruitment Hotline: 0532-57787212

Website: https://www.uhrs.edu.cn/

Chinese source: Official website of the University of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

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