The headquarters of Shanghai Jiaotong University is in Xuhui Campus. Shanghai Jiaotong University is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education and jointly established by the Ministry of Education and Shanghai. It is the first batch of universities under construction in the Seventh Five-Year Plan, the Eighth Five-Year Plan and the 2 1 1 project and the 985 project. It is one of the oldest institutions of higher learning in China.

Jiaotong University has always regarded talent training as the fundamental task of running a school. Over the past century, the school has trained more than 400,000 outstanding talents for the country and society, including a group of outstanding politicians, scientists, social activists, industrialists, engineering and technical experts and medical experts.

Jiaotong University has created many firsts in the modern development history of China: the earliest internal combustion engine, the earliest electric motor and the earliest Chinese typewriter in China; The first 10,000-ton ship, the first nuclear submarine, the first-generation fighter independently designed, the first translation and publishing institution in colleges and universities, and the largest number of local documents in New China all embody the painstaking efforts and wisdom of teachers, students and alumni of Jiaotong University.

The main campus of Shanghai Jiaotong University is located at Huashan Road 1954, Shanghai.

The main campus of Shanghai Jiaotong University is located at Huashan Road 1954, Shanghai, 200030. The school has 34 directly affiliated colleges/departments, 12 affiliated hospitals, 3 directly affiliated scientific research platforms, 22 directly affiliated units and 5 directly affiliated enterprises.

Full-time undergraduate students 17606, full-time graduate students 26944, degree students 2096. 3,700 full-time teachers; 28 academicians of China Academy of Sciences, 26 academicians of China Academy of Engineering, 14 chief scientists of major national scientific research programs, and 188 winners of National Outstanding Youth Fund were selected as the first batch of national innovative talents training demonstration bases of the Ministry of Science and Technology.

The school has 18 discipline selected as the national double-class construction discipline; 18 subjects were from Gao Feng Plateau. At present, the school has 52 authorized points for doctoral degrees in first-class disciplines, covering economics, law, literature, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, management, art, education and other disciplines 10.