The school was founded in 1896, formerly known as Nanyang Public College,191renamed Nanyang University Hall, 1929 renamed national chiao tung university, and 1949 renamed Jiaotong University.

1957 experienced westward separation and was divided into Shanghai part of Jiaotong University and Xi 'an part. 1959, the name of "Shanghai jiaotong university" was introduced by Shanghai part of jiaotong university; 1999, the former Shanghai Agricultural College merged; In 2005, it merged with the former Shanghai Second Medical University.

School-running philosophy:

The school takes "Suntech, erudite, realistic and innovative" as its motto, "Creating famous schools, educating characteristics, creating famous teachers and educating talents" as its school purpose, and adheres to the educational policy of "all-round development, simultaneous development of five educations, specialty development, personality development, teaching students in accordance with their aptitude and harmonious development".

The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Shanghai Jiaotong University.