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Shanghai Normal University
China

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Official website: http://www.shnu.edu.cn/
Tel：021-64322695
Address：Xuhui Campus: No. 100, Guilin Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai; Fengxian Campus: No. 100, Haisi Road, Fengxian District, Shanghai
Shanghai Normal University is a key university in Shanghai. It is a comprehensive university with coordinated development of liberal arts, science, engineering, and art, which is good at liberal arts and has the characteristics of teacher education. The school was founded in 1954, became an undergraduate college in 1956, was identified as the first batch of master's degree awarding institutions by the Academic Degree Committee of the State Council in 1981, was approved as a doctoral degree awarding 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, it became a pilot unit for the construction of high-level local universities (disciplines) in Shanghai. In 2021, it will enter the ranks of high-level local universities in Shanghai as a whole. The school has always attached great importance to party building and ideological and political work, adhered to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, fully implemented the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, effectively strengthened the party's overall leadership over colleges and universities, unswervingly implemented the main responsibility of comprehensively and strictly governing the party, fully implemented the party's education policy, and implemented the fundamental task of cultivating people with moral integrity, ensuring that the party's will and propositions take root in colleges and universities, and ensuring that the school always becomes a strong position for cultivating socialist builders and successors. The school was selected as the first batch of Shanghai universities' "three-dimensional education" comprehensive reform demonstration universities, the first batch of Shanghai party building demonstration universities, and 3 national party branches were selected as model party branches for party building work; the first batch of Shanghai "big ideological and political courses" construction overall experimental area leading universities, the School of Education won the national advanced collective of the education system, and the School of Humanities was approved as the pilot college for key ideological and political reforms in Shanghai universities; approved 1 ideological and political demonstration course of the Ministry of Education, 6 ideological and political teaching teachers and teaching teams of the Ministry of Education; approved 8 ideological and political demonstration courses of Shanghai, 3 ideological and political teaching teachers and 3 teaching teams of 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. The school has 22 colleges, with more than 20,000 full-time undergraduate students, more than 10,000 graduate students, more than 800 international students, and more than 13,000 adult and junior college students. The school currently has 90 undergraduate majors; 11 first-level doctoral degree programs, 30 first-level master's degree programs, 25 professional master's degree programs, and 11 postdoctoral mobile stations. The school currently has 1 key discipline for "Double First-Class" and 7 Shanghai high-level advantage disciplines, of which 5 are Class III peak disciplines of Shanghai universities; 7 disciplines are in the top 1% of ESI worldwide. 26 national first-class undergraduate major construction sites, 16 Shanghai first-class undergraduate major construction sites; 15 majors have passed the second-level certification of teacher training majors of the Ministry of Education; 4 Ministry of Education higher education specialty construction sites; 1 Ministry of Education and Shanghai undergraduate major comprehensive reform pilot major. 2 national-level new liberal arts research and practice projects; 2 national-level new engineering research and practice projects; 1 national-level new agricultural research and practice project; 4 Shanghai-level new liberal arts research and reform practice projects; 2 Shanghai-level new engineering research and reform practice projects; 1 Shanghai-level new agricultural research and practice project; 3 reform projects of the Ministry of Education's Excellent Teacher Training Program; 8 Shanghai-level applied undergraduate pilot major construction projects; 18 Shanghai undergraduate education highland construction projects. 14 national first-class undergraduate courses; 6 national-level high-quality resource sharing courses; 61 Shanghai-level high-quality courses; 16 Shanghai-level exemplary all-English courses; 383 Shanghai-level key courses; 3 Shanghai-level exemplary undergraduate classrooms. 1 National Advanced Individual in Textbook Construction; 1 first prize in the National Textbook Construction Award for Basic Education (editor-in-chief of a volume) and 6 second prizes (main editorial units); 1 second prize in the National Textbook Construction Award for Higher Education (deputy editor-in-chief); 6 first-batch Shanghai Higher Education Excellent Textbooks; in the past five years, 2 national teaching achievement awards and 31 Shanghai teaching achievement awards have been won. The school has a number of strong laboratories and scientific research bases. There is currently 1 UNESCO Teacher Education Center; 1 National Field Science Observation and Research Station; 1 National Language and Character Promotion Base; 1 National Expert Service Base; 1 Ministry of Education Key Research Base for Humanities and Social Sciences; 1 Ministry of Education Philosophy and Social Sciences Laboratory (pilot); 1 Ministry of Education Key Laboratory; 1 Ministry of Education International Cooperation Joint Laboratory; 3 Shanghai Key Laboratories; 1 Shanghai International Joint Laboratory; 2 Shanghai University Key Laboratories; 1 Ministry of Education Chinese Excellent Traditional Culture Inheritance Base (first batch); 1 International Education Research and Cultivation Base of the Ministry of Education; 1 Regional and Country Research Cultivation Base of the Ministry of Education; 1 Country and Regional Research Center of the Ministry of Education; 1 Research Center Co-built by the Policy and Regulations Department of the Ministry of Education; 1 Shanghai Field Science Observation and Research Station; 3 Shanghai Engineering Technology Research Centers; 1 Shanghai Collaborative Innovation Center; 1 Shanghai Frontier Science Research Base; 1 Shanghai Key Think Tank; 2 Shanghai Social Science Innovation Research Bases; 12 Shanghai Humanities and Social Sciences Research and Decision-making Consulting Bases; 4 Shanghai Higher Education E-Research Institutes; 1 Shanghai Higher Education Think Tank; 1 National Key Talent Training Base; 1 National Liberal Arts Basic Discipline Talent Training and Scientific Research Base; 1 Shanghai Primary and Secondary School Online Education Research Base; 1 Shanghai Excellent News and Communication Talent Training Base. The school sponsors or hosts 29 academic journals (including collections), among which "College Liberal Arts Academic Abstracts" is one of the three major social science abstract journals in the country. Shanghai Education Press was fully integrated into the school in 2021. It owns 11 newspapers and magazines and multiple digital new media. It has five subsidiaries including Xueyou Bookstore, and manages the Shanghai News Agency of China Education Daily and Shanghai Brain Olympics Association. It is one of the first batch of digital publishing transformation demonstration units in the country. The school has strong scientific research capabilities. In the past five years, the school has obtained 533 national projects (236 in liberal arts and 297 in science), including 21 major bidding projects of the National Social Science Fund (including art), 2 national philosophy and social science achievement libraries, 30 national key research and development plans (including 19 sub-projects), 2 National Outstanding Youth Science Funds, 5 Excellent Youth Science Fund projects, 7 key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation (including 3 sub-projects), 4 major research plan projects of the National Natural Science Foundation (including 3 cooperation projects); 493 provincial and ministerial projects (292 in liberal arts and 201 in science); 10 scientific research results were published in top scientific research journals such as "Chinese Social Sciences", Nature, Science, Cell, etc.; 57 provincial and ministerial and above excellent achievement awards (47 in liberal arts and 10 in science). The school has a reasonable structure of faculty and outstanding talents. There are 3,103 faculty members, including 2,151 full-time teachers, 1,164 professors and other senior teachers, 3 academicians (including dual-appointed academicians), and 448 winners of national and provincial and ministerial talent programs. In addition, the school has also formed a team of more than 500 part-time teachers. The school has rich educational resources. There are two campuses in Xuhui and Fengxian, covering an area of about 1.265 million square meters (about 1,900 acres). The building area of the school building is more than 839,000 square meters. The two central libraries have a collection of more than 3.4 million books; among them, the collection of ancient books is nearly 120,000 volumes, more than 1,350 kinds of rare ancient books. In 2009, it was awarded the "National Key Protection Unit for Ancient Books" and "Shanghai Key Protection Unit for Ancient Books". There are 141 electronic document databases, of which 8 are self-built databases with collection characteristics. The school's Shanghai University Porcelain Art Museum is one of the top ten national cultural museums in Shanghai. The school fulfills its mission of serving basic education, runs a cluster of high-quality affiliated schools, and strives to play a leading role in running education that satisfies the people and running good schools near their homes, serving the optimization and improvement of the supply and guarantee level of Shanghai's education public services, and serving the high-quality and balanced development of basic education in the central and western regions. The school's basic education group has 82 affiliated schools in Shanghai, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Anhui, Fujian, Xinjiang, Yunnan, Guizhou, Hainan, Henan and other places, and has become a high-quality basic education brand serving Shanghai, facing the Yangtze River Delta, and radiating across the country. 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 a Chinese language education base of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council, and hosts the first local government scholarship preparatory training base in China, the "Shanghai International Student Preparatory Academy". The school has established important international cooperation platforms, including the UNESCO Teacher Education Center, the Ministry of Education's International Cooperation Joint Laboratory, and the Ministry of Education/Ministry of Science and Technology Innovation and Intelligence Base. It is a founding member of the International Alliance of Modern Local Universities and the Shanghai-Hong Kong University Alliance, and its international students come from 65 countries and regions around the world. The school has established exchange and cooperation relations with nearly 200 universities and organizations in more than 40 countries and regions on six continents around the world.It has established inter-school student exchange programs with 80 foreign universities. It has cooperated with 7 universities in 6 countries including the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands, Russia and France to hold 10 Sino-foreign cooperative education projects. A Confucius Institute has been established at the University of Botswana in Africa. The Chinese universities are selected in the "China-Africa University 20+20 Cooperation Plan" of the Ministry of Education. The school obtained the QAA international higher education quality certification in 2023. 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. In the new journey, the school will focus on the two priority strategies of innovation in teacher education and improvement of advantageous disciplines, adhere to the basic principles of "strengthening normal education, improving disciplines, collaborative support, and creating first-class", serve the national strategy and the needs of Shanghai's economic and social development, and accelerate the construction of a high-level university with distinctive characteristics in teacher education.