The School of Civil Engineering and Architecture of Shanghai Normal University is an earlier institution in this city to offer civil engineering majors. At present, there are four majors in Night University: civil engineering undergraduate, engineering management specialist, civil engineering specialist and construction engineering technology specialist. Mainly for the society to train applied senior talents who can be engaged in structural design, research, construction management, project management, real estate development, supervision and consulting, engineering investment and other technical and management aspects of housing construction, urban roads, bridges and tunnels, municipal engineering, etc.

The continuing education office is the management institution of the college to carry out adult continuing education. For a long time, continuing education has been adhering to the characteristics of "educating people, achieving the future" and "building a future life". At the same time, relying on the advantages of full-time education resources, further relying on the industry and adapting to the development requirements of the industry, we have broadened the ways of running schools and formed a relatively perfect education, including evening university education, construction post certificates, qualification examination guidance for construction professionals and professional skills qualification training, and professional frontier lecture training for construction enterprise managers. Up to now, more than 3,000 management talents at all levels have been trained for the society and enterprises, and the trainees have been promoted to varying degrees and have a good career development in their respective posts.