Shanghai University, referred to as "Shanghai University" for short, is a comprehensive university under the "2 1 1 Project" jointly established by the Ministry of Education, the State Bureau of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense and the Shanghai Municipal People's Government, a national "double-class" world-class discipline construction university, and the first batch of doctoral degree awarding units in China. He was selected into "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Plan", "Excellent Journalism and Communication Talents Education and Training Plan", "National Construction of High-level University Postgraduate Plan", "Thousand Talents Plan" and "1/Plan".
1922 10 10 In October, Shanghai University was founded by China in cooperation with the first president Yu Youren. 1927 was forcibly closed by the Kuomintang authorities. 1983, Shanghai Municipal People's Government reinstated Shanghai University. 1994 In May, Shanghai University for Science and Technology (founded in 1960), Shanghai University for Science and Technology (founded in 1958), Shanghai University and Shanghai Institute of Science and Technology (founded in 1959) merged to form a new Shanghai University.
Professor Qian Weichang, one of the "San Qian" and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was the president of the new Shanghai University on 1994-20 10, and took the lead in establishing a talent training model with the credit system, elective system and three-semester system as the core in China. The school has carried out comprehensive cooperation with the Yangtze River Delta Institute of China Academy of Sciences and China Academy of Social Sciences. In 20 17, it was ranked among the top 60 universities in the world, with Chinese mainland 1 university, Chinese mainland 15 university and Chinese mainland 3 1 university in 20 17 USNews. The strategic goal of the school is to build a world-class comprehensive research university with distinctive characteristics.
As of February 20 17, the school has three campuses: Baoshan, Yanchang and Jiading, covering an area of nearly 3,000 mu, with a building area of10.232 million square meters; Postgraduates 143 10, full-time undergraduates 20902, international students 4 1 17.