Shanghai University, referred to as "Shangda" for short, is a comprehensive university directly under the Shanghai Municipal Government, which is the national "2 1 1 project" key. The Ministry of Education and the Shanghai Municipal People's Government * * * set up universities, and the State Bureau of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense and the Shanghai Municipal People's Government * * * set up universities.

The national "double-first-class" world-class discipline construction university has been selected as a batch of high-level local university construction pilots, "China Demonstration Base for Overseas Students of the Ministry of Education", "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Plan", "Excellent Journalism and Communication Talents Education and Training Plan",11plan ","First "and" the first batch of in-depth demonstration universities in Shanghai for innovation and entrepreneurship.

1October 23rd, 1922, 10, Shanghai University was founded by both parties. Yu Youren, then principal, was a revolutionary school. 1927 was forcibly closed by the Kuomintang authorities.