Universities of Applied Sciences Institute of Technology is the first high-level applied innovative university named after "applied technology" in Shanghai, and it has been selected as the key construction unit of high-level local universities in Shanghai, the first batch of leading plans for first-class undergraduate construction and first-class postgraduate education in Shanghai universities. The Ministry of Education's first batch of new engineering research and practice projects and first-class undergraduate specialty construction sites, national 100 application-oriented undergraduate demonstration universities, national intellectual property pilot universities, national college students' innovation and entrepreneurship training plan, Shanghai's first batch of demonstration universities to deepen innovation and entrepreneurship education reform, Shanghai's leading universities in the overall reform of college curriculum and ideological and political affairs, Shanghai's model school of governing by law, Shanghai's new engineering, new agricultural science and new liberal arts research and practice projects are Universities of Applied Sciences (College) Alliance.

The school was founded on 1954. In 2000, Shanghai University of Science and Technology was formed by the merger of Shanghai Institute of Light Industry, Shanghai Institute of Metallurgy and Shanghai Institute of Chemical Technology. In 2006, the former Shanghai Spice College of the Ministry of Light Industry was merged into the school. In 2008, it officially became a master's degree authorized unit. 20 16 was renamed Shanghai Universities of Applied Sciences with the approval of the Ministry of Education. 202 1, approved as a doctoral degree awarding unit.

According to the information of official website in May 2023, the school has two campuses, Fengxian Campus and Xuhui Campus, covering an area of 1.428 mu and a construction area of about 582,700 square meters. There are 19 secondary colleges (departments) with 56 undergraduate majors; There are 6 provincial-level key disciplines, 1 discipline authorized by doctoral degree, 8 disciplines authorized by master degree, and1category authorized by master degree. There are more than 3,200 full-time graduate students, more than 0.6 million undergraduates and more than 0.7 million faculty members, including full-time teachers.