Shanghai University of Science and Technology is a full-time ordinary institution of higher learning jointly organized and built by the Shanghai Municipal People's Government and the China Academy of Sciences. The Shanghai Municipal People's Government is responsible for the daily management. Since its establishment, the school has made great efforts to build and develop into a small-scale, high-level and international research-oriented innovative university. In February 2022, 14 was selected as the second round of "double first-class" construction universities.
Based on the orientation of running a school, the school disciplines actively serve the needs of national strategy and economic and social development. There are 16 colleges, academies, research institutes and scientific research centers. There are 5 first-level disciplines authorized by doctoral degree and 8 first-level disciplines authorized by master degree; There are 2 types of doctoral degree authorization and 3 types of master degree authorization. Undergraduate enrollment major 1 1, covering physics, chemistry, materials, biology, information, management, art and mathematics.
The school pays attention to cultivating students' sense of social responsibility of "determination, success, serving the country and enriching the people" and cultivating top-notch talents engaged in scientific discovery, high-tech innovation and entrepreneurship in emerging industries. Undergraduate education follows the principle of "broad caliber, thick foundation, small scale and internationalization", emphasizing general education, professional education and innovation and entrepreneurship education. Postgraduate training focuses on the combination of major scientific facilities and major scientific research projects.
As a pilot unit of comprehensive education reform, University of Science and Technology Shanghai will strive to build an innovation platform combining Industry-University-Research, with student training as the top priority, first-class teachers as the first resource for development, reform and innovation as the first driving force for progress, integration of science and education to improve the quality of personnel training, open cooperation to serve economic and social development, full integration into the construction of Shanghai Science and Technology Center and Zhangjiang Comprehensive National Science Center, and be a practitioner of integration of science and education and high-quality running schools, so as to comprehensively improve the level of comprehensive running schools and contribute to the innovative development of Shanghai and the whole country.