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. The president of the university is Professor WeiChang Chien, famous scientist of China, the Former Vice-chairman of the People's Political Consultative Conference of China and an Academician of Chinese academy of Science.

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.

It has a faculty of 5,484, among which more than 380 are full professors and more than 780 are associate professors. Of these professors, 7 are academicians of Chinese Academy of Science and Chinese Academy of Engineering, 175 doctor supervisors and 13 national-leveled young specialists of science and technology of their achievements.

Shanghai University is the biggest institution of higher learning run by Shanghai Municipality. It has a clear thought guiding her running and takes cultivating socialist builders and successors who are ambitious, moral, well- educated and well-disciplined as her fundamental mission. Since reform and opening, with its motto of being independent and making unremitting efforts to be strong and under the guidance of the thought of facing the society, meeting with the needs of the market, developing the strong fields and forming our own characteristics, the university has kept on making reform on education. And a series of measures have been implemented. As a result, a school running system and teaching mode with the outstanding features have taken into shape. 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, an excellent undergraduates will be probably be 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 30,00 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 adults students as well.

The strength of its scientific research stands in advance of the institutions of higher learning in China. There have been set up more than 72 research institutes and research centers, among which the New & High Tech Development Garden is approved by the State Science Commission. Sticking to the strategy of getting active involvement in the economic construction, following the advanced level in the world and developing the scientific research the university has obtained not only a host of significant scientific and technological results in the field of applied research but also a group of domestically and internationally influential fruits in the field of fundamental research. Within the recent years, the university ranks advanced in terms of scientific research funds, achievements awarded and the number of the academic thesis. The university pays a lot of attention to the industrialization of its scientific and technological fruits. And to further the improvement of its courses construction and teaching quality the university adds the new scientific results to its teaching.

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.