Shanghai University is a comprehensive university affiliated to Shanghai and under the national "2 1 1 Project". It is a university jointly established by the Ministry of Education and the Shanghai Municipal People's Government, the first batch of high-level local universities in Shanghai, and a national first-class discipline construction university.

Shanghai University, founded on1October 23rd, 1922, is the first regular university founded by China * * * production party. The school overcame all kinds of difficulties, struggled to run a school, attracted enthusiastic young people from all directions, gathered and trained a large number of outstanding talents for China's revolution and construction, and won the reputation of "Great Literature and Great Martial Arts" and "May 4th Peking University in the North and May 30th University in the South".