Second Military Medical University
The People's Liberation Army Naval Medical University (), also known as the PLA Second Military Medical University (SMMU) (), is a public university in Shanghai, China. It was founded in September 1949 and named in July 1951. It is a national key university supported by the state Project 211. It is a Chinese state Double First Class University, included in the national Double First Class University Plan. As of 2021, the Second Military Medical University is ranked between top 701-800 among world universities according to the "Academic Ranking of World Universities." It was previously called People 's Medical College of the East China Military Commanding Region. The building is adjacent to Fudan University and Tongji University and covers an area of nearly . The premises have a total floor space of over , including a complex of modern teaching buildings, a library, an experiment building and teaching hospitals of the first rate in China. The library itself covers an area over with a collection of over 500,000 book volumes.