The College Night University Office undertakes the management of night university and non-academic education in Shanghai Normal University, and applies for self-study examination, civil service examination, teacher qualification certificate and other education. The office undertakes the construction and examination of examiners for the self-study examination of Shanghai Normal University. Starting with the direction of running a school, the scale of running a school, the specialty setting, the level of running a school, teaching management and other aspects, the college has expanded its thinking in an all-round way, and formed a multi-specification, multi-level, multi-form and diversified education system such as night university, higher education self-study examination, non-academic education and training, and professional certificate examination. There are 76 undergraduate and specialist majors in Night University, with students 13086. Examiners for higher education self-study exams: 7 majors (including 12 undergraduate and junior college), with more than13,000 applicants; Adhering to the guiding ideology of "basing on the region, facing the whole country and serving the society", the college actively carries out various long-term and short-term education and vocational training programs to meet the needs of Shanghai residents, and also actively participates in training programs in Shanghai to support the education of cadres in the central and western regions. Held various seminars for Yunnan, Guizhou, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Gansu, Chongqing and other provinces and cities, and was awarded by the Organization Department of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Cooperation and Exchange Office of the Shanghai Municipal People's Government and the Shanghai Personnel Bureau. The college receives nearly 10000 trainees from all walks of life every year.

The college pays attention to promoting the reform of the teaching content and curriculum system of continuing education, taking strengthening and optimizing management as the means, deepening reform as the driving force, paying attention to the standardization construction and implementation of teaching quality, analyzing and exploring new situations and problems, and guiding the overall improvement of teaching management level and personnel training.