Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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, two affiliated medical research institute, 12 directly affiliated units, and six directly affiliated enterprises, with 16,195 undergraduates and 30,270 postgraduates (14,374 master degree candidates and 6,719 doctorate candidates)，2,401 overseas students. The university faculty includes 2,835 full-time teachers (among which 891 are professors), 22 members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 24 members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, one 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 nine significant 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, three national demonstration centers of virtual simulation experiment teaching, and 10 Shanghai Municipal Experiment Teaching Demonstration Centers, SJTU has eight national-level teaching groups, 15 Shanghai Municipal teaching groups, eight 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, seven bilingual-teaching demonstration courses and14 Shanghai higher education all-English demonstration courses. SJTU won the 1st national "double demonstration base" and established an innovative student 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 critical 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 critical 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 the National Natural Science Foundation of China. The number of SCI included papers in terms of the Article and Review hit a historical high with a total number of 6,027. Among them, the outstanding international paper reaches 2,497. The total number of domestic SCI-cited papers reaches 26,749, ranking the first in China. Two thousand four hundred fourteen 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. One 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 outstanding achievements made since the reform and opening up, SJTU has attracted wide attention both inside and outside China.
Established in 1896 as Nan Yang College, Shanghai Jiao Tong University is one of China's first national institutions of higher learning. The name "Jiao Tong" comes from the book Yi Jing. Literally, "Jiao" means unite and "Tong" means harmony.
With a shining history of more than 121 years, SJTU has grown with and shared weal and woe with the country. At present, it is implementing a grand blueprint for future development and is determined to make continued efforts to build itself into a first-class university in the world.
SJTU, as it is fondly called, is a dynamic and comprehensive university for excellent student education, cutting-edge scientific research, and social service. From the early stage of its development, SJTU took first-class talents education as its principal mission. And today, it has been developed to the talent education idea of knowledge exploration, capacity development, and personality nurturing.
Whether one is Academician or a newly enrolled freshman, whether one's field is mechanical engineering or contemporary literature, in the name of the truth-seeking spirit, SJTU encourages its faculty and students to join a standard search for answers to the fundamental and to the pressing questions that society is faced with. Members of the SJTU community are united by this spirit to pursue intellectual excellence and are dedicated to discovering knowledge in the classroom, the laboratory, and the community. For its members, SJTU has become the place where their dreams start to fly.
Besides its remarkable history, SJTU is also a university famous for its honored traditions. Its tradition of gratitude and responsibilities has already been deeply rooted in the hearts of its alumni, and to some, it has become their behavior philosophy.