Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), as one of the higher education 

institutions which enjoy a long history and a world-renowned reputation in 

China, is a key university directly under the administration of the Ministry 

of Education (MOE) of the People's Republic of China and co-constructed by 

MOE and Shanghai Municipal Government. Through 121 years' unremitting 

efforts, SJTU has become a comprehensive, research-oriented, and 

internationalized top university in China. 

By December 2016, SJTU has had 28 schools/departments, 21 research 

institutions, 13 affiliated hospitals, 2 affiliated medical research 

institute, 12 directly affiliated units and 6 directly affiliated 

enterprises, with 16,195 undergraduates and 30,270 postgraduates (14,374 

master degree candidates and 6,719 doctorate degree candidates)，2,401 

overseas students. The university faculty includes 2,835 full-time teachers 

(among which 891 are professors), 22 members of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 

24 members of Chinese Academy of Engineering, 1 selected in "Thousand Talents 

Top Program" of the Organization Department of CPC Central Committee, 105 

selected in "Thousand Talents Program" of the Organization Department of CPC 

Central Committee,143 chosen in "Young Talents Program", 140 Distinguished 

Professors and Chair Professors of "Cheung Kong Scholar Program", 8 Cheung 

Kong Youth Scholar, 123 winners of China National Funds for Distinguished 

Young Scientists, 35 Chief Scientists of the Major State Basic Research 

Development Program of China (973 Program), 14 Chief Scientists of the State 

Key Scientific Research Program, 14 Innovation Research Groups, National 

Natural Science Foundation of China and 20 Innovation Teams, MOE.

Today SJTU has 64 undergraduate programs covering 9 major disciplines: 

economics, law, literature, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, 

management and arts. Since 2000, there are 47 national higher education 

teaching achievement prizes （31 completed independently）. With 6 National 

Experimental Teaching Demonstration Centers, 3 national demonstration centers 

of virtual simulation experiment teaching and 10 Shanghai Municipal 

Experiment Teaching Demonstration Centers, SJTU has 8 national-level teaching 

groups, 15 Shanghai Municipal teaching groups, 8 nationally renowned teachers 

and 36 Shanghai locally renowned teachers and owns 46 national-level quality 

courses, 13 national-level video-recorded open courses, 23 national-level 

quality resource-sharing courses, 162 Shanghai Municipal quality courses, 7 

bilingual-teaching demonstration courses and14 Shanghai higher education 

all-English demonstration courses. SJTU won the 1st national “double 

demonstration base” and established student innovative center.

Up to now SJTU has 38 first-level disciplines authorized to offer doctorate 

degree covering 8 fields: economics, law, literature, science, engineering, 

agriculture, medicine and management; 56 first-level disciplines authorized 

to offer master degree covering all the 12 discipline fields; 3 disciplines 

authorized to offer professional doctorate degree; 23 disciplines authorized 

to offer professional master degree; 35 postdoctoral research station, 1 

national laboratory (preparing), 1 national key technology infrastructure, 8 

national key laboratories, 1 national scientific research institutes, 5 

national engineering research centers, 2 national engineering laboratories, 1 

national research and development centers, 1 national defense key discipline 

laboratory, 3 collaborative innovation centers, 1 international united 

laboratory；15 key laboratories of MOE, 5 key laboratories of National Health 

and Family Planning Commission, 1 key laboratory of Ministry of Agriculture, 

31 key laboratories of Shanghai Municipal Government, 5 engineering research 

centers of MOE, 5 engineering technology research centers of Shanghai, 4 

Shanghai Municipal functional platforms of，1 National Social Science Fund 

consultation spot， 5 innovative research bases of philosophy and Social 

Sciences of Shanghai Municipal，3 Shanghai Municipal think tank，4 decision-

making advisory research bases of Shanghai Municipal Government (expert 

studio），2 Shanghai Municipal soft science bases，1 MOE colleges and 

universities research base of soft science, 3 WHO collaborating centers, 1 

National Technology Transfer Center, and 1 National University Science Park.

SJTU enjoys an increasingly high scientific research level and technology 

innovation level. Up to 2016, SJTU led the country for the 7th consecutive 

year in terms of both the project number and the amount of money issued by 

National Natural Science Foundation of China. The number of SCI included 

papers in terms of the Article, and Review hit a historical high with the 

total number of 6,027. Among them, international outstanding paper reaches 

2,497. The total number of domestic SCI-cited papers reaches 26,749, ranking 

the first in China. 2,414 papers were regarded as "doing-a-good-job" papers, 

ranking the third in China. In 10 years, SCI-cited papers have reached 39,913 

and 366,612 times, continue to maintain the second in China. 705 

International Conference Papers, ranking second in China. 1 was elected as “

2015 Chinese most influential 100 international academic papers”.

With profound cultural background, an age-old tradition on education, 

strenuous development history, and great achievements made since the reform 

and opening up, SJTU has attracted wide attention both inside and outside 

China. Carrying the mission of preserving cultural heritage, and seeking for 

the truth, bearing the responsibility of invigorating the Chinese nation and 

developing for the benefits of mankind, today this centennial university is 

sailing for the aim of becoming a comprehensive, research-oriented and 

internationalized world-class university.