East China University of Science and Technology is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education. It is a key university under the national "2 1 1 Engineering" and "985 Engineering Advantage Discipline Innovation Platform", and one of the national "double-class" universities. The adult higher education of East China University of Science and Technology started at 1956, which is one of the earliest institutions of higher learning in China.
Since 1984, the school has undertaken various forms of continuing education tasks according to various needs put forward by the state and enterprises. 65438-0988 Approved by the former State Education Commission, the school formally established the Adult Education College. In 2003, it was renamed the School of Continuing Education of East China University of Science and Technology, which is the centralized management department of adult higher education (evening university, correspondence), self-study examination, various non-academic continuing education and lifelong education.
In the 1990s, with the transformation and development from a single-discipline university to a multi-discipline university, especially after the evaluation of adult higher education, the school's adult education gradually developed in a multi-discipline direction.
The number of majors offered has gradually increased from the initial dozen to more than 50, involving chemical engineering, machinery, computers, materials, management, information, commerce and trade, finance, law, art, sociology and other multidisciplinary categories. School-running level includes undergraduate and undergraduate levels, with more than 1 10,000 registered students. It is one of the fastest-growing and largest adult education schools in Shanghai.
The School of Continuing Education of East China University of Science and Technology is committed to integrating high-quality resources inside and outside the school, and providing good intellectual consultation for the government and industry departments with the school-running concept of "industry characteristics, discipline integration and cutting-edge technology"; Provide first-class enterprise technology and management internal training for petroleum, chemical, biological, pharmaceutical, food, environmental protection, materials and other industries; Provide good learning guidance for the society in adult education, self-study examination, national vocational (practicing) qualifications, various English and computer certificates.