Overview

Tsinghua Medicine envisions "Transforming Medicine and Healthcare for a Shared Future", adhering to the development concepts of being innovative, initiative, international, and integrative. It fully utilizes the advantages of a comprehensive university to build an academic health system characterized by innovation-driven science and technology, engineering-driven techniques, clinical demand orientation, and digital empowerment. This integrated system of medicine, education, and research aims to enhance innovation, influence, and leadership in medical education, research, and services, benefiting a broad range of patients, population, and society.

Tsinghua Medicine accepts bachelor degree holders to pursue doctoral degrees. Bachelor degree holders for doctoral program application must meet all the uniform requirements of the university, as well as the requirements of this school/department listed below:

1.Chinese Proficiency Requirement: HSK level 4 with a score of 195 or above;

2.English Proficiency Requirement for Non-native English Speakers: TOFEL:80 / IELTS:6.5.

Highlights

The Outstanding Clinician Scholar Program

The Outstanding Clinician Scholar Program aims to recruit undergraduate students from diversified departments, who possess great humanistic feelings, enriched scientific literacy, and a compound multidisciplinary knowledge background. This distinguished program facilitates the integration and transformation from multidisciplinary fields into medicine. It focuses on developing both clinical practice competence and research ability in scholarly clinicians. The project will launch organ-systems-based teaching, clinical practice, and advanced clinical training. Graduates will be conferred a Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) degree.

Programs for International Students 2025
Electronic and Information Engineering	(M)
Mechanical Engineering	(M)
Clinical Medicine	(M)(D)
Medicine	(M)(D)
Master of Public Health	(M)

(M)–Master’s Programs (D)- Doctoral Programs

Application Qualifications:

1. Applicants must be non-Chinese citizens with a valid passport.

2. Applicants should be graduates with undergraduate degrees from non-medical majors.

3. Only bachelor degree holders are accepted to pursue doctoral degrees.

4. Applicants must be bachelor's degree holders, or students who will graduate in 2025. Students who have yet to graduate must ensure they obtain their Bachelor's degree before the registration date for doctoral students. In principle, the degree diploma awarded by overseas universities should be authenticated by the Chinese Service Center for Scholarly Exchange, Ministry of Education, P.R. China.

5. Applicants should be in good health and of good character, meeting the physical examination requirements stipulated by the country and Tsinghua University. They must be well-behaved and willing to abide by China's laws and regulations, as well as Tsinghua's rules.

Application Requirements:

1. Language Competence Requirements:

a) Chinese Proficiency Requirements: HSK Band 4 with a score of 195 or above.

b) English Proficiency Requirements for Non-native English speakers: TOEFL 80 / IELTS 6.5 or above.

2. Recommendation Letters: Applicants must submit two recommendation letters from scholars who hold the title of associate professor or higher. These letters must confirm that the Bachelor's degree holder has the necessary learning and research abilities to pursue a Doctoral degree directly.

3. Other Application Requirements:

a) Undergraduate study at a world-class university.

b) All applicants must complete pre-med courses and submit a qualified transcript before entrance. The required pre-med courses are listed in Table 1 below. These courses can be taken at the original university or online.

Table 1. Required pre-med courses

Number	Discipline	Curriculum	Minimum Credits
1	Mathematics	Calculus	2 credits
2		Linear Algebra	4 credits
3	Physics	Physics	2 credits
4	Chemistry	Principles of Chemistry or General Chemistry	2 credits
5		Organic Chemistry	3 credits
6		Lab. of Organic Chemistry	1 credit
7	Biology	Principles of Biochemistry	4 credits
8		Basic Practical Biochemistry	4 credits
9		Medical Molecular Biology	3 credits
10		Laboratory of Molecular Biology	2 credits
11		Cell Biology	3 credits
12		Experiment of Cell Biology	1 credits
13	General	Writing and Communication	2 credits

Note: The applicant must carefully check whether he/she meets the application qualifications and requirements (including those declared by the target school/department/major/program) before submitting an application. The applicant shall bear any consequences resulting from failure to meet the application qualifications and requirements.

Application Remarks:

1. Accommodation will be arranged at Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital.

2. The tuition fee for 2025 is 40,000 per year.

Evaluation and Admission:

Tsinghua University (THU) admits students based on the evaluation of their application documents in conjunction with a comprehensive assessment. An expert group reviews the application materials, and candidates for the comprehensive assessment are selected based on these review results. For bachelor's degree holders pursuing a doctoral degree program, further assessment is typically conducted through a public interview within the university's premises. Tsinghua Medicine determines the method of the interview (on-site or remote), the location, and the time, and will notify the applicants accordingly.

THU takes into account the results of the material review, comprehensive assessment, and other factors to select the most qualified candidates and determine the admission list. Applicants can check their admission status through the THU Graduate Programs Application System for International Students.

Others:

1. Applicants must ensure that the application information, application materials, degree certificates, and degree authentications provided are true and accurate. If the admissions unit or certification department verifies that any part of the application is untrue, the application, admission, or study qualification will be cancelled.

2. Applicants who are found to be in breach of academic ethics, professional ethics, honesty, trustworthiness, discipline, or law-abiding will not be admitted, or their admission/study qualification will be cancelled after this breach has been verified.

3. An applicant who has any objection to the admissions process of the school/department may file a complaint in written form to the school/department. The school/department should accept the complaint and respond. If the complainant disagrees with the reply, they may appeal to the Graduate Admissions Office.

4. Other unfinished matters in this guide are implemented in accordance with 'Admission to Graduate Programs of Tsinghua University 2025 (For International Students)'.

How to Apply

Applicants should complete an Online Application at https://yzbm.tsinghua.edu.cn/intlLogin during the designated THU application period. Applicants should fill in the application information online, upload the application documents listed below to the Online Application System, and pay the application fee online at the time of submission.

Executive Master of Translational Medicine (EMTM) Program

Executive Master of Translational Medicine (EMTM) Program in Tsinghua University is the first part-time graduate program in China, particularly designed for senior clinicians and professionals in health industry. This program aims to cultivate interdisciplinary talent leaders to transfer health innovation into clinical applications safer, faster and more efficient, and benefit the health of the whole population finally. We anticipate that upon receiving their degrees, the students would leave with the creative thought, acute insight, sensitive taste and international perspective that an industry leader sorely need.

Cultivation Methods

Part-time learning program (40 credits)

Domestic social practice

Overseas social Practice (optional)

Mentor group system: academic + industry

Program Duration: 3-5 years

Language: Chinese

Enrollment Target

Health industry innovators and entrepreneurs

Physician scientist and clinical researchers

Technology transfer managers and R&D scientists

Health technology incubators and investors

Health industry policy makers

Application Requirements:

Applicants must be non-Chinese citizens with a valid personal ordinary-type passport.

Bachelor's degree or above

At least 4 years (including 4 years) of working experience after obtaining bachelor's degree or at least 2 years (including 2 years) of working experience after obtaining a master's or doctoral degree.

Chinese Proficiency: Fluent

Application and Admission

1）THU admits students based on evaluation of their application documents together with a comprehensive assessment. Experts from the department will review the application materials, and select the qualified applicants in re-examination which will be performed via interview or remote interview. The specific method, location and time of the examination will be determined and released to the selected applicants by the department.

2）Applicants should complete an Online Application on this website during the designated THU application period (http://gradadmission.tsinghua.edu.cn). Applicants should fill in the application information online, upload the application documents to the Online Application System, and pay the application fee online at the time of submission.

Certificates

Tsinghua University Postgraduate Diploma and Master of Public Health (MPH) Degree Certificate

Tuition Fee

Please refer to the admission brochure of the current year.

Curriculum

Professional Ethics: Compulsory Public Courses, Professional Competence Module

Public Health Perspectives: Public Health Module

Multi-disciplinary knowledge integration: Technology Frontiers Module, Industry Policy Module, Humanistic Management module

Integration of academia and industry: Social Practice Module

Contact

Website：https://www.med.tsinghua.edu.cn/

Doctor of Medicine(105100) - Outstanding Clinician Scholar Program

Tel：+86-10-62773751

Email：thumed-zs@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn

Clinical Medicine Phd Program (100200), Master's program in general medicine (105100), Program for interdisciplinary talents of clinical medicine（100200、085400、085500）

Tel：+86-10-62797384

Email：yjszs_scm@tsinghua.edu.cn

Master of Public Health (105300) - Executive Master of Translational Medicine

Tel：+86-10-62782835

Email：liuke2021@tsinghua.edu.cn

Address: Room D102, Zheng Yutong Building, Tsinghua University, Haidian District, Beijing, 100084, China.