Shanghai International Studies University, located in Shanghai, is 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 a national "double-class" and "21/project". Selected into the national high-level university construction graduate program and the national college students' innovation and entrepreneurship training program. Party Secretary Jiang Feng and President Yansong Li. The school motto is "learn Chinese and foreign".
As of September 2022, the school has two campuses, Hongkou and Songjiang, covering an area of 74.7 hectares. At present, there are 55 undergraduate majors, 8 master's degree authorization points in first-class disciplines, 8 master's degree authorization points, 3 doctoral degree authorization points in first-class disciplines and 3 post-doctoral research stations.
The school was formerly known as Shanghai Russian School affiliated to East China People's Revolutionary University, which was founded in 1949 and 12. It is the first foreign language institution of higher learning established after the founding of New China. It was inherited and reformed by the Foreign Language College affiliated to East China People's Revolutionary University, Shanghai Russian Institute and Shanghai International Studies Institute, and was listed as a national key university of the Ministry of Education in 1963.
1985 approved by the Ministry of Education, the English name of the school was determined as "Shanghai International Studies University" (SISU for short), and 1994 was officially renamed as "Shanghai International Studies University". By 2022, Shanghai International Studies University will rank 50th in the ABC ranking of Chinese private universities in 2022.