Peking University

Peking University is a public research university in Haidian District, Beijing. It was founded in 1898 as the Imperial University of Peking during the Hundred Days' Reform and took its present name in 1912. Under president Cai Yuanpei from 1917, it became the intellectual center of the New Culture and May Fourth movements. Chen Duxiu, Hu Shi, Li Dazhao and Lu Xun all taught there at that time. In 1952 it moved to the former Yenching University campus around Weiming Lake. In 2000 it merged with Beijing Medical University.

The university's schools and departments cover the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, information and engineering, economics and management, and medicine. It is strongest in mathematics, physics, chemistry, Chinese language and literature, history, philosophy, economics and law. Graduate programs run through the Guanghua School of Management, the National School of Development and the Beijing International Center for Mathematical Research. The Peking University Health Science Center runs affiliated teaching hospitals, including Peking University First Hospital, People's Hospital and Third Hospital. Its Shenzhen Graduate School includes the HSBC Business School.

Peking University enrolls more than 45,000 students, and about two thirds are graduate students. Several thousand international students come from more than 100 countries. Alumni include Tu Youyou, a Nobel laureate in medicine who graduated from the university's medical school, former Premier Li Keqiang and Baidu founder Robin Li.

Doctoral and research master's students work under a faculty adviser within a school or department. English-taught options include the Yenching Academy master's in China studies, which is fully funded, and management degrees at Guanghua. International students often hold Chinese Government or university scholarships. The year runs in fall and spring semesters, starting in September. The campus keeps the gardens, lake and pagoda of the Yenching grounds and sits near the Old Summer Palace and Zhongguancun.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, Peking University lists 2 graduate programs in finance & financial economics, all of them master's programs. Peking University holds rank 27 in the GSN Overall University Ranking.