The school was established in July, 1909. It was the Department of Shipping Administration of Shanghai Higher Technical School of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications in the late Qing Dynasty that initiated the higher maritime education in China. It has experienced such periods as Advanced Merchant Shipping School of Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, Wusong Merchant Shipping School, Wusong Merchant Shipping College of Ministry of Communications, National Chongqing Merchant Shipping College, National Wusong Merchant Shipping College, and Shanghai Maritime College.
As of June 5438+February, 2020, the school has three campuses: Lingang Campus (main campus), Gangwan Campus and Minsheng Road Gaofeng Building, in which Lingang Campus covers an area of 6.5438+0.33 million square meters with a total construction area of 600,000 square meters. There is a second-level school-running department with 49 undergraduate majors; National key (cultivation) disciplines 1 unit; There are 3 postdoctoral research mobile stations, 4 first-class doctoral programs, 1 first-class master degree authorization points 16, and master degree authorization categories 13.
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Well-known alumni of Shanghai Maritime University (only some people in education and science are listed here):
1, You Yang: China famous shipbuilding expert, educator and social activist, academician of China Academy of Sciences.
2. Wang Gongheng: Shipbuilding scientist and educator, one of the founders of China Shipbuilding Engineering Society, Department of Shipbuilding, Jiaotong University.
3. Tang Limin: educator of solid mechanics and mechanics, dean of the Graduate School of Dalian University of Technology, and executive director of the theoretical and applied mechanics Institution of China.
4. Ma Shuo: 1982 graduated from this school; 1998 was elected as the director of the International Association of Shipping Economists in July; 1998 was awarded the Knight Medal personally signed by the French Prime Minister in September; 1998 became the vice president of the World Maritime University.
5. Chen Jingying: Dean of School of Law, Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, legal adviser to Shanghai Pudong New Area Government, and director of Shanghai Law Society.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Shanghai Maritime University