Shanghai University of Commerce, founded in 1960, is an undergraduate college in Shanghai, a high-level vocational college with college characteristics in Shanghai, and a national graduate employment demonstration college. It has been rated as "National Model Vocational College with Applied Characteristics", and is currently enjoying multiple honors such as major reform orientation, leading Shanghai's education system to build a high-level model vocational college with applied characteristics, cadre training center, scientific and technological innovation base, and teachers' continuing education base.

The school has 1 1 colleges, namely Business Administration College, International Economic Management College, Information Management College, Business Foreign Languages College, Culinary Art College, International Business School, Hotel and Tourism College, Finance and Insurance College, Marketing College, Finance and Taxation College and Basic Education College, covering economic management, foreign languages, information technology, hotel management, tourism management, accounting and accounting. The school pays attention to the cultivation of actual combat ability and practical background, advocates diversified practice and innovative entrepreneurial activities, and provides extensive support and services for students' career planning and personal development.

The school is committed to cooperating with well-known universities and enterprises at home and abroad, realizing school-enterprise cooperation and promoting the diversification of personnel training. It has also established extensive cooperative relations with domestic and foreign universities, providing students with rich and diverse domestic and international practice opportunities, introducing international advanced courses, providing students with a global vision of reading and thinking, and cultivating high-quality applied talents to adapt to the market economy and internationalization.