University of Shanghai for Science and Technology has been merged into Shanghai University and is a public institution. Shanghai University is a comprehensive university affiliated to Shanghai and under the national "2 1 1 Project". It is a university jointly established by the Ministry of Education and the Shanghai Municipal People's Government, the first batch of high-level local universities in Shanghai, and a national first-class discipline construction university.

1May, 1994, the new Shanghai University was founded by University of Shanghai for Science and Technology (founded on 1960), Shanghai University of Science and Technology (founded on 1958), former Shanghai University (founded on 1983) and Shanghai Institute of Science and Technology (founded on/kloc-0)

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Shanghai University is one of the national experimental colleges 17 universities, one of the first universities implemented by the Ministry of Education, and one of the universities implemented by Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China and the Ministry of Education. Qian Weichang University was selected as the first batch of "three-round education" comprehensive reform pilot institutes (departments) of the Ministry of Education. The school has established a distinctive talent training model with credit system, course selection system and short semester system as the core.

Shanghai University graduates have always been favored by employers because of their wide knowledge, high comprehensive quality, strong innovation ability and sufficient development potential. In 2009, the school was rated as one of the first batch of 50 "national graduate employment typical experience universities" by the Ministry of Education.

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