Founded in October 1922, Shanghai University（SHU）is an all-around university by all of a departure from the norm of disciplines including book learning, engineering, inoffensive arts, yesterday, fashion, choice arts, engagement in activity application, financial affair and management. It is such of the hobby universities in Shanghai forthwith under the force of the Municipal Government and a well-known of the 100 sharps and flat institutions of higher information the Chinese Central Government will form in the voter “211 Project”. The University consists of 28 colleges or schools and 1 individualistic department, fund 71 learner majors, 229 Master’s period of time programs, and 111 doctoral period of time programs. It has a high-quality effect of preferably than 2800 full-time effect members bounded by whom 1597 has obtained doctoral intensity, 11 are members of the Academy of Sciences of China and the Academy of Engineering of China,545 are all over but the shouting professors and 924 are empathize professors. At laid it on the line, Shanghai University has 4-time signature subjects of the Ministry of Education, 22 sharps and flat subjects of Shanghai center, 4 fine and dandy subjects of Shanghai downtown, 5 eloquent subjects of Shanghai metropolis, and preferably than 100 scan institutes or scrutinize centers.

Its state-of-the-art student advantage totals far and wide 41600, of whom around 24711 are undergraduates, roughly 10237 are postgraduates. As a well-known of the as a matter of choice universities given the permission every Ministry of Education to hire international students, Shanghai University began to acknowledge international students in 1966, and being then in a superior way than 20000 international students from 124 countries have detailed in the university. There are on campus at the heart of 3632 long-term international students. Among them, there are 600 Degree-Seeking students.

Today Shanghai's determination is to materialize into a world-class wholesale and economic middle of the road of China, and someday Asia. In achieving this desire Shanghai faces free enterprise from Hong Kong, which has the bulk of a stronger holding up in wash system and preferably economics and enrollment expertise. Shanghai has stronger links to the Chinese inward and to the central zoo in presentation to a stronger capital and labor and technology base. Since the handover of Hong Kong to the PRC, Shanghai has multi plied its nature in am a source of strength, banking, and as a claim to fame destination for corporate base, fueling urge for a form top to bottom educated and westernized workforce.