Neither. According to official website of Shanghai Sport University, Shanghai Sport University is an ordinary sports college managed by the State Sports General Administration and the Shanghai Municipal People's Government, the first batch of world-class discipline construction institutions in China, and the pilot construction unit of high-level local universities in Shanghai. It is neither a 985 university nor a 2 1 1 university. College was founded in 1952, formerly known as East China Institute of Physical Education, which was formed by the merger of Nanjing University, Jinling Women's University and the Physical Education Department of East China Normal University.