2 +2: 2 years of domestic study +2 years of overseas study.

1 +3: 1 year domestic study +3 years overseas study.

Shanghai International Studies University, referred to as "Shanghai International Studies University" for short, is the first foreign language institution established after the founding of New China, one of the birthplaces of foreign language education in New China, and a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC) and jointly established with the Shanghai Municipal People's Government. It is one of the first national "2 1 1 engineering" and "double-class" world-class disciplines.

Selected as a national postgraduate project to build a high-level university and a scholarship institution of the China government to receive overseas students in China.

The school was formerly known as Shanghai Russian School affiliated to East China People's Revolutionary University, which was founded in 1949 and 12. Its first chairman was Jiang Chunfang, a famous Russian translator, publisher and founder of the encyclopedia of China.

Later, it was inherited and transformed by the Foreign Language School affiliated to East China People's Revolutionary University, Shanghai Russian Institute (revised) and Shanghai International Studies University, and officially renamed Shanghai International Studies University on 1994.