China Pharmaceutical University (CPU) consists of 6 schools (School of Pharmacy, School of Traditional Chinese Pharmacy, School of Life Science and Technology, School of International Pharmaceutical Business, School of Continuing Education and Zhenjiang Vocational School), 4 departments (Department of Basic Science, Department of Social Sciences, Department of Physical Education and Department of Foreign Languages), 6 research institutes and 7 research centers. CPU offers 18 four-year undergraduate specialties as well as 29 master's programs,24 doctoral programs and 1 postdoctoral trainning program with 6 disciplines that are approved by the Academic Degree Commission of the State Council. There are three key national disciplines: Pharmaceutical Chemistry ,Pharmacognosy, Pharmaceutics and one key provincial discipline -----Modern Traditional Chinese Pharmacy and Pharmacognosy. CPU is the only institution that is authorized by the Ministry of Education to admit regular students of pharmaceutical sciences, continuing education students and senior visiting scholars from overseas. It is also one of the educational institutions in the mainland for students from Hongkong , Macao and Taiwan . At present, CPU has more than 22,000 students in different programs of study.