Shanghai Open University is a new type of institution of higher learning sponsored by the Shanghai Municipal People's Government, approved by the Ministry of Education and managed by the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission. The school, formerly known as Shanghai TV University, was founded in 1960. 1987 is listed as a key institution of higher learning in Shanghai. In 20/0/2, Kloc was renamed as Shanghai Open University with the approval of the Ministry of Education. It is the first school named after "Open University" in China.
The school is supported by modern information technology, with distance open education as the main form, and mainly carries out adult junior college and undergraduate education. By June 2020, the school has opened 54 majors with about 80,000 registered students, making it the school with the largest number of students in Shanghai. Since its establishment, it has trained more than 550,000 undergraduate and junior college graduates.
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By June 2020, the school has more than 44 branches and teaching points, and 54 open education projects and majors. Among them, there are 33 undergraduate majors 15 (Shanghai Open University 13 majors and 7 majors of National Open University).
Shanghai Open University has 1 1 colleges, including directly affiliated secondary colleges, training centers, international exchange colleges, urban public security management colleges, education colleges for the disabled, education colleges for the elderly, new rural construction colleges and women's colleges. There are also management departments, law and administration departments, accounting departments, foreign languages departments, literature and art departments, information and engineering departments, vocal music and dance teaching departments and comprehensive departments.