Shanghai University of International Business and Economics

Shanghai University of International Business and Economics (formerly Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade) was founded in 1960. It is one of the two earliest undergraduate universities established by the former Ministry of Foreign Trade and is known as the "cradle of China's foreign trade talents". In 1994, the school was transferred to the management of the Shanghai Municipal People's Government; in 2009, it was selected as the world's first and China's first WTO Chair University; in 2013, it was renamed Shanghai University of International Business and Economics; in 2019, it obtained the qualification of WTO Asia-Pacific Training Center and became the only regional training partner established in mainland China among the WTO's seven global training partners; in 2021, it became a doctoral degree-granting institution with the approval of the State Council Academic Degrees Committee, and applied economics became a first-level doctoral degree authorization point, ranking among the high-level local universities that Shanghai focuses on. The school was born as a strong trading nation, prospered due to opening up to the outside world, flourished due to comprehensive reform, and was renewed due to the opening-up cause in the new era. After more than 60 years of development, it has built an integrated talent training system with distinctive characteristics and outstanding advantages for undergraduate, master and doctoral degrees, and has achieved fruitful results in the training of high-level, application-oriented and internationalized economic and trade talents and decision-making consulting research in the field of international economics and trade, and its comprehensive school-running strength has been significantly improved.

The school has always adhered to the school-running philosophy of "student-oriented and academic-oriented", and abided by the school motto of "integrity, tolerance, erudition and pragmatism". Talent training reflects the characteristics of high admission scores, high employment quality, high employment salary and strong foreign language ability. The school has 10 national first-class undergraduate professional construction sites, 4 national first-class undergraduate courses, 19 national undergraduate teaching quality and teaching reform projects, 1 Shanghai University First-Class Undergraduate Construction Leading Plan Project, 1 Shanghai University Course Ideological and Political Key Reform Pilot College, and 2 Shanghai Municipal University Application-oriented Undergraduate Pilot Majors. In 2019, the school was selected as one of the top 50 "National Universities with Typical Experience in Innovation and Entrepreneurship" and the "National Base for the Inheritance of Excellent Traditional Chinese Culture in General Universities" by the Ministry of Education; in 2020, the school was selected as one of the first batch of universities to build the "Innovation and Practice Base for the Cultivation of High-level International Talents" by the Ministry of Education. In the QS 2019 ranking, the school ranked 82nd among universities in mainland China; in the 2020 Soft Science China University of Finance and Economics Ranking, the school ranked 10th in the country; in the 2021 National University Graduate Salary Index Ranking, the school ranked 13th in the country.

The school has established an open economic discipline group with applied economics as the leader, and a reasonable layout and coordinated development of economics, management, liberal arts, law, science and engineering. It currently has 1 first-level doctoral program (applied economics), 7 first-level master programs in applied economics, business administration, law, foreign languages ​​and literature, theoretical economics, statistics and Marxist theory, 2 peak and plateau disciplines of Shanghai universities (applied economics, business administration), 2 key disciplines of Shanghai, and 5 key disciplines of the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission. Among them, applied economics and business administration entered the top 20% of the Soft Science ranking, and theoretical economics, law, and statistics entered the top 30% of the Soft Science ranking. There are 10 provincial and ministerial key research bases, 3 Shanghai university think tanks, and 5 country and regional research centers registered with the Ministry of Education. It has co-built the "Global Trade Analysis and Monitoring Center" and other new university think tanks with Chinese characteristics with the General Administration of Customs. Two think tanks were selected into the CTTI Top 100 University Think Tanks List (National "A Zone University Think Tanks") and the Chinese member unit of the "Belt and Road" International Cooperation Think Tank Committee.

The school insists on serving national strategies and regional development, and has made positive contributions in the drafting of the Basic Law of Hong Kong, China's "re-entry" and "entry into the WTO" negotiations, Pudong development and opening up, WTO research, APEC negotiations, China-Australia and China-South Korea FTA negotiations, RCEP negotiations, China-US economic and trade negotiations, foreign development aid, Central and Eastern European economic and trade cooperation, Northeast Asian peace process, Shanghai Free Trade Zone, CIIE, and the construction of the "Five Centers", "Four Functions" and G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor. The level of decision-making consulting research has been ranked among the top universities in Shanghai for many years, and has been ranked first among municipal universities for two consecutive years.

The school continues to expand its network of foreign exchanges and cooperation. It is a recipient of Chinese government scholarship students and Shanghai government scholarship students. It has signed cooperation and exchange agreements with more than 100 countries, international organizations and overseas partners around the world to jointly carry out talent training, scientific research and social services. Three Confucius Institutes and one Confucius Classroom have been opened in key areas of the "Belt and Road Initiative". The Confucius Institute built in cooperation with the University of Ljubljana has won the title of "Global Advanced Confucius Institute". It has in-depth cooperation with international organizations such as WTO, APEC, UNCTAD, UNESCAP, and International Trade and Sustainable Development Center (Geneva), and has been rated as China's Center of Excellence for WTO Affairs, providing support and services for my country's participation in global economic governance.

The school currently has three campuses in Songjiang, Gubei, and Qibao, and co-built the Songjiang Experimental School affiliated to Shanghai University of International Business and Economics with the People's Government of Songjiang District, Shanghai. It has 2 Shanghai First-Class Graduate Education Leading Plan projects, 3 Shanghai Professional Degree Graduate Demonstration Practice Bases, and 13 Shanghai Professional Degree Graduate Practice Bases. There are more than 1,300 faculty and staff, including more than 800 full-time teachers, more than 70 high-level talents at the national, provincial and ministerial levels, and 17 doctoral supervisors; more than 400 teachers with senior professional titles, and teachers with doctoral degrees account for more than 60% of the total number of full-time teachers; more than 13,000 students, including more than 9,000 full-time undergraduates, nearly 4,000 master's students, and more than 300 academic students.

During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the school will adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, adhere to the socialist direction of running schools, adhere to the moral education of people, fully implement the party's education policy, closely connect with the construction of a strong education country and a strong trade country and Shanghai's accelerated construction of a socialist modern international metropolis with global influence, and strive to create five highlands of "innovative talents", "discipline innovation", "famous teachers gathering highland", "new think tank highland" and "international cooperation highland", and comprehensively start a new journey of building a world-renowned, domestically first-class, distinctive high-level financial university, provide stronger service support for Shanghai to build a "central node of the domestic circulation and a strategic link between the domestic and international dual circulation", and make greater contributions to the country's construction of a strong education country and a strong trade country.

(Data updated as of October 2021)