Shanghai Normal University

（上海师范大学）

Basic information

City: Shanghai
Founded in: 1954
Type: Public University
Number of total students: 36300
Number of international students: 1000
Number of faculty: 3082

上海南京路步行街 Nanjing Road Walkway, Shanghai. Image by iStudy-Hera.

About Shanghai

Shanghai, on China’s central coast, is the country's biggest city and a global financial hub. Its heart is the Bund, a famed waterfront promenade lined with colonial-era buildings. Across the Huangpu River rises the Pudong district’s futuristic skyline, including 632m Shanghai Tower and the Oriental Pearl TV Tower, with distinctive pink spheres. Sprawling Yu Garden has traditional pavilions, towers and ponds. ― Google

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About Shanghai Normal University

Founded in 1954, SHNU boasts 11 disciplines from 19 colleges, more than 20, 000 undergraduates, 8, 000 postgraduates and over 1,100 overseas students. Until this year, SHNU has 9 first-degree disciplines of doctoral candidates, 33 first-degree disciplines of master’s programs, 9 post-doctoral programs, 1 national key lab disciplines, 11 Shanghai municipal key disciplines, 11 Shanghai Peak and Plateau Programs, 4 Characteristic Disciplines Construction of Higher Education programs, 1 Comprehensive Reforms Trial of Undergraduate Majors of Shanghai, 3 Outstanding Teachers’ Training and Reforms programs of Education Ministry of China, 1 Neoindustrial Research and Practices program of China, 8 Undergraduates’ Trial Majors of Applied Science for Universities in Shanghai, and 18 Undergraduate Education Construction Programs of Shanghai. Moreover, 5 SHNU disciplines have been listed as top 1 perent of ESI.

SHNU also owns a series of key national science and social science labs as well as research centers. In recent years, SHNU has successfully been approved of 520 state-level programs.

Particularyly, SHNu also boasts a collection of over 3 million books, more than 100 electronic databases and about 120, 000 ancient books. The SHNU Ceramics Arts Museum is one of the ten most influential mueums of traditional culture and arts in Shanghai. The SHNU established cooperative education partnership with 7 universities in the USA, the UK, Germany, Netherlands, Russia and France. It has two Confucius Institutes in Japan Fukuyama University and University of Botswana in Africa.

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As of December 2018, the university has 19 secondary colleges. There are 88 undergraduate majors, covering 11 disciplines such as philosophy, economics, law, pedagogy, literature, history, science, engineering, management, agriculture and art.

By December 2019, the university has 9 post doctoral research mobile stations and 9 first-class discipline doctoral degree authorization points; 33 first-class discipline master’s degree authorization points and 18 master’s professional degree authorization points; It has 1 national key discipline, 11 Shanghai key disciplines, 7 first-class disciplines in Shanghai universities, 16 key disciplines of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, 11 Shanghai peak plateau disciplines (the number of selected disciplines ranks second in Shanghai Municipal universities).

In the survey on the international advanced direction of colleges and universities organized by Shanghai Municipal Education Commission in 2013, the University was in the international advanced position in seven of the four disciplines of mathematics, chemistry, biology, control science and engineering. In the QS World University Discipline ranking in 2015, 9 disciplines of the University were selected as the first-class disciplines of world universities and ranked among the top 8 universities in Shanghai. As of November 2019, chemistry Mathematics, botany and zoology, materials science and engineering have ranked among the top 1% of ESI in the world.

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