Shanghai Jiao Tong University is one of the famous institutions of higher learning with the longest history and reputation at home and abroad. It is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education and jointly built with Shanghai Municipality. After 125 years of unremitting efforts, Shanghai Jiao Tong University has become a domestic first-class and internationally renowned university, and further defined the vision on constructing a “comprehensive, innovative and international” world-class university.

SJTU has 33 schools/departments, 12 affiliated hospitals, 2 affiliated medical research institutes, 23 directly affiliated units and 5 directly affiliated enterprises, with 17,460 full-time undergraduates, 14,670 full-time master degree candidates, 11,031 full-time doctorate degree candidates, and 2,291 overseas students (among which 1,331 are postgraduates). SJTU faculty includes 3,512 full-time teachers (among which 1,157 are professors), 27 members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and 25 members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. As a comprehensive university, SJTU offers 71 undergraduate programs covering 9 major disciplines: economics, law, literature, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, management, and arts.