Shanghai University was originally established in 1922. It is located in Shanghai, the financial hub of China. It a population of over 56700 students with over 16900 postgraduates students.
Shanghai University is a research-based institution with the priority of developing talents. The university has over 3100 full-time teaching staff including professors, associate professors, lecturers with doctorates. The university also has 6 full-time members of the prestigious Chinese Academy of Science and the Chinese Academy of Engineering and 10 foreign academicians.
Since the focus of the university is to develop talent, it is committed to research and its impletementation.
The university’s faculty and members have served the nation in different capacities such as:
The “Ten Thousand People Program” selected 8 people from Shanghai University11 lecturers and professor for the Yangtze River Scholars, 9 national candidates for the “Billion Talent Project” and 5 members of the university’s faculty for the Changjiang Scholars Youth Project.
Shanghai University had 20 winners of the National Natural Science Foundation Outstanding Youth Science Fund.