Advantages
Since its establishment, Shanghai International Studies University (SISU) has always maintained its leading academic strengths and high teaching quality, and is the university with the largest number of authorized doctoral degree sites and postdoctoral research stations (foreign languages and literature, political science, business administration) among similar institutions in China. The university is also ranked first in China in terms of the number of stations (foreign languages and literature, political science and business administration).
The university is committed to promoting the construction of “strategic languages” to provide the most urgent and critical talent pool for national and local development and to promote the exchange and appreciation of civilizations. The number of languages taught at SFA has reached 50, including Russian, English, French, German, Spanish, Arabic, Japanese, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Korean, Persian, Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Swedish, Dutch, Hebrew, Ukrainian, Turkish, Hindi, Hungarian, Uzbek, Kazakh, Polish, Swahili, Swahili and Korean. Czech, Swahili, Serbian, Romanian, Tajik, Belarusian, Urdu, Pashto, Malay, Javanese, Sundanese, Cambodian, Chinese, and 38 other modern languages, as well as Latin, Ancient Greek, Esperanto, Sanskrit, Old English, Classical Syriac, Pahlavi, Classical Nahuat, Akkadian, Sumerian, Classical Hebrew, Ottoman Turkish, and 12 other languages. The curriculum includes 12 classical languages and international auxiliary languages such as Ottoman Turkish.
At present, SFA has fully formed a discipline pattern with a strong focus on language and literature, and a coordinated development of six major disciplines, including literature, education, economics, management, law, and engineering, with distinctive characteristics and diversity. There are three national key disciplines (English Language and Literature, Russian Language and Literature, Arabic Language and Literature [cultivation]), one national undergraduate talent training base for non-common languages (Western European language cluster), 10 national specialty construction points, 29 national first-class undergraduate specialty construction points and four Shanghai (provincial) first-class undergraduate specialty construction points, and foreign language and literature has entered the national “double first-class” construction discipline. “Six disciplines, including foreign language and literature, political science, applied economics, pedagogy, journalism and communication, and business administration, are listed as first-class disciplines in Shanghai universities (among them, foreign language and literature is A class).
It is also a member of the International Consortium of Universities and Colleges of Translation (CIUTI), and has the leading senior translation school in Asia, which has offered all six official language pairs of the United Nations and has received the highest global rating from the International Association of Conference Interpreters (AIIC).
