Shanghai Normal University

Shanghai Normal University (Shanghai Normal University), referred to as Shanghai Normal University, is jointly established by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China and the Shanghai Municipal People's Government. It is selected into the "National Construction of High-level University Public Graduate Program", "Excellent Teacher Training Program", and "Overseas High-level Talent Introduction Program". It is a comprehensive key university in Shanghai with a strong liberal arts and teacher education characteristics. The disciplines of liberal arts, science, engineering, and art are coordinated.

Shanghai Normal University is a key university in Shanghai. It is a comprehensive university with a strong liberal arts and teacher education characteristics. The disciplines of liberal arts, science, engineering, and art are coordinated.

The school was founded in 1954, became an undergraduate college in 1956, was identified as the first batch of master's degree-granting institutions by the Academic Degree Committee of the State Council in 1981, was approved as a doctoral degree-granting institution in 1986, and was selected as an institution for the implementation of the Excellent Teacher Training Program of the Ministry of Education in 2017. In 2019, the school became a pilot unit for the construction of high-level local universities (disciplines) in Shanghai.

The school has a complete range of disciplines and fruitful teaching results. There are 11 disciplines including philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, management, agriculture, and art. There are 19 colleges, with more than 20,000 full-time undergraduate students, more than 8,000 graduate students, more than 1,100 international students, and more than 6,000 adult and junior college students. The school currently has 89 undergraduate majors; 9 first-level doctoral degree programs, 33 first-level master's degree programs, and 9 postdoctoral mobile stations. The school currently has 1 national key discipline; 11 Shanghai key disciplines; 11 disciplines that are included in Shanghai's peak and plateau disciplines; 4 characteristic specialty construction sites of higher education institutions of the Ministry of Education; 1 pilot major for comprehensive reform of undergraduate majors of the Ministry of Education and Shanghai; 3 reform projects of the Ministry of Education's Excellent Teacher Training Program; 1 national new engineering research and practice project; 8 Shanghai-affiliated universities' applied undergraduate pilot specialty construction projects; 18 Shanghai undergraduate education highland construction projects. 5 disciplines are among the top 1% of ESI disciplines.

The school has a number of strong laboratories and scientific research bases. There are 1 national talent training and scientific research base for liberal arts basic disciplines; 1 national key talent training base; 1 national field scientific observation and research station; 1 key research base for humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of Education; 1 international education research and cultivation base of the Ministry of Education; 1 regional and country research and cultivation base of the Ministry of Education; 1 first batch of excellent traditional Chinese cultural inheritance bases of the Ministry of Education; 1 key laboratory of the Ministry of Education; 1 international cooperation joint laboratory of the Ministry of Education; 1 innovation team of the Ministry of Education; 1 country and regional research center registered with the International Cooperation and Exchange Department of the Ministry of Education; 1 Shanghai key think tank; 1 Shanghai university think tank; 3 Shanghai key laboratories; 1 Shanghai international joint laboratory; 2 Shanghai university key laboratories; 2 Shanghai engineering technology research centers; 1 Shanghai collaborative innovation center; 1 Shanghai field scientific observation and research station; 1 Shanghai social science innovation research base; 12 Shanghai humanities and social science research and decision-making consulting bases; 4 Shanghai university E-research institutes; 1 Shanghai excellent news and communication talent training base. In 2017, the "Teacher Education Center", a Category II institution of UNESCO, settled in the school, further enhancing the global influence of the school's teacher education. The school hosts or undertakes 25 academic journals, among which "College Humanities Academic Abstracts" is one of the three major social science abstract journals in the country.

The school has strong scientific research strength. Since the 13th Five-Year Plan, the school has obtained 520 national projects, including 22 major bidding projects of the National Social Science Fund, 2 major research projects of the Ministry of Education's philosophy and social science research, 4 national philosophy and social science achievement libraries, 1 National Key Basic Research and Development Program (973) project (sub-project), 23 national key research and development plans (including 20 sub-projects), 2 National Outstanding Youth Science Funds, 6 Excellent Youth Science Fund projects, 8 National Natural Science Foundation key projects (including 3 cooperations), 3 National Natural Science Foundation major research plan projects (including 2 cooperations); 522 provincial and ministerial projects of various types, and 73 provincial and ministerial awards for outstanding achievements or above.

The school has a reasonable structure of faculty and has produced many outstanding talents. There are 2,980 faculty members, 1,227 of whom have professional and technical positions of associate senior or above, including 56 national talents and 327 provincial and ministerial talents. In addition, the school has also formed a team of more than 600 part-time teachers.

The school has rich educational resources. There are two campuses in Xuhui and Fengxian, covering an area of ​​more than 1.53 million square meters. The school building area is more than 680,000 square meters. The two central libraries have a collection of 3.323 million books; there are more than 100 electronic document databases and 8 self-built databases with collection characteristics; the collection of ancient books is nearly 120,000 volumes, more than 1,350 kinds of rare ancient books, and was awarded the "National Key Protection Unit for Ancient Books" in 2009. The Shanghai University Porcelain Art Museum built in the school is one of the top ten national cultural museums in Shanghai.

The school attaches great importance to international education and has extensive foreign exchanges and cooperation. It is listed as a Chinese government scholarship institution for international students in China and is a preparatory base for foreign students in Shanghai. The school has established exchange and cooperation relations with nearly 400 universities and organizations in more than 40 countries and regions on six continents around the world. It has cooperated with 7 universities in six countries including the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands, Russia, and France to hold 10 Sino-foreign cooperative education projects. There are two Confucius Institutes at Fukuyama University in Japan and the University of Botswana in Africa.

Since its establishment, the school has always adhered to the concept of caring about education. Under the guidance of the school motto of "virtue, erudition, truth-seeking, and practice", it has inherited and promoted the spirit of "eternal teacher's way" of the Normal University, and a large number of famous teachers have emerged. At the same time, the graduates trained by the school are active in the front line of basic education, including Shanghai Education Heroes, Special Principals and Special Teachers of Primary and Secondary Schools. With their noble teacher ethics and outstanding achievements, they continue to expand and deepen the cultural foundation and spiritual blood of teacher education in the Normal University. (The above data statistics are as of December 2020)