Motto stone on campus
No. 4 teaching building
Dormitories
College of Arts
International students in EXPO activity
Classroom for international students

Shanghai University, one of the key institutions of higher learning in Shanghai directly under the Municipal Government and on the list of national "Project 211" in China.

Shanghai University has the glorious tradition and reputation. At the beginning of 1920's Shanghai University educated a lot scholars an patriotic personage who enjoy the great prestige both at home and abroad. The new Shanghai University still carry forward the tradition, excellent spirit and cultivated many outstanding talents for socialist modernization drive.

Shanghai University is a comprehensive university with rich diversity of disciplines; it consists of 20 colleges and schools, 2 university-supervised departments and 1 physical education department at the moment, offering 58 undergraduate programs, 86 postgraduate programs, 20 doctoral programs and 9 post-doctoral programs covering Dynamic, Metallurgy, Electronic & Communication, Mathematics, Materials Science and Information Engineering. In addition, we also have 14 key disciplines and 3 key laboratories on the municipal level have been set up in three batches.

At the university, there have been carried out some unique systems such as the credit system, the system of electing courses, short-term system, tutor system. Under the direction of their tutors and at their own wills do the students elect the courses, arrange the study progress, choose the lecturers and decide the majors. So they students can fully combine the needs of the society with their own abilities, interests and special skills. In addition, based on its characteristics of multi-disciplines and taking its advantage of comprehensive development, the university carries out the main and supplementary courses system, double subjects system and double majors system. At the same time, excellent undergraduates will be probably promoted as a graduate and an excellent master student can advance his schedule of studying for a PhD. By these methods the university provides the students with a good environment of fully developing their ideas, intelligence and health. Now there are more than 30,000 full-time students at the university, among whom nearly 25,000 are undergraduates and 4,400 are PhD and master students. And at the university there are over 20,000 adult students as well.

Shanghai University has communicated and cooperated widely with international community. Our relationship and academic exchange with foreign universities, research institutes and enterprises have also increased a lot. Up till now, we have established cooperative relationship with tens of universities abroad, invited many world-famous scholars as honorary professors, part-time professors and guides of doctors. Meanwhile, we are gradually sending teachers abroad for further training, investigating and academic exchanging. We began to enroll English-teaching foreign students, graduates and doctors in the year of 1998. Nowadays there are altogether more than 1000 foreign students in Shanghai University. In recent years, Shanghai University has achieved greatly in school-running with foreign universities, such as the Sydney College of Industry and Commerce of Shanghai University jointly run by the Sydney College of Science and Technology in Australia.

Located in the eastern cosmopolitan city - the biggest economic center in China, Shanghai University not only has the glorious past, substantial today, but bright future as well. She is to be an important cradle for fostering talents greatly needed for economic and social development, a base for scientific research, social service and material and spiritual civilization. With distinct comprehensive superiority, obvious teaching methods, flexible managerial mechanism, optimistic mental outlook, Shanghai University is sure to become an all-around university with good fame both home and abroad.

Shanghai University has passed professional authentication for its flexibility on the list of National "the Tenth Five-year Plan" and "Project 211" on November 3, 2002, thus further target has been put forward , which is to carry forward the spirit of making unremitting efforts in order to build up green, civilized and informational campus, to set up talents and education system and system of scientific and technological innovation corresponding with Shanghai, an modern cosmopolitan, to lay a solid foundation to upgrade Shanghai University as a first-rate comprehensive university ,a university oriented in research and application.