Shanghai Electric Power University is a full-time ordinary institution of higher learning jointly founded by the central government and Shanghai, and mainly managed by Shanghai. The school was founded in 195 1, and 1985 was renamed Shanghai University of Electric Power. The school has two campuses, Yangpu and Pudong, with full-time students 12000 and faculty 1000.

The motto of the school is "patriotism, diligence, pragmatism and forge ahead". The school adheres to the school-running policy of "based on electric power, based on application and based on the front line" and establishes the school-running concept of "seeking truth and being pragmatic, being sensible and far-reaching". The school insists on deepening the reform, speeding up the connotation construction, steadily improving the scale, level, quality and international influence of running a school, and gradually develops into a distinctive institution of higher learning with industry as the main body, science, management, economics and literature as the main body, and energy and electricity as the main body, with coordinated development of multiple disciplines. ?