Shanghai Normal University

Shanghai Normal University is one of the key universities in Shanghai. It is a comprehensive university with the characteristics of Arts, science, engineering and arts. The university has entered the ranks of universities supported by the Ministry of comprehensive education reform of Shanghai.

Founded in 1954, Shanghai Normal University became an undergraduate university in 1956. In 1981, it was designated as one of the first batch of master's degree awarding units by the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council. In 1986, it was approved as a doctor's degree awarding unit by the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council.

There are more than 21000 full-time undergraduate students, more than 7000 graduate students, more than 2100 international students, and about 13000 night university students.

At present, the university has 86 undergraduate majors, covering 11 disciplines such as philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, management, agriculture and art. The major of Chinese language and literature has a national talent training and scientific research base for basic subjects of liberal arts approved by the Ministry of education. The major of classical philology is one of the four bases for training classical literature talents. Primary education, Chinese language and literature, advertising and tourism management were selected as the characteristic specialty construction sites of the Ministry of education; preschool education was selected as the comprehensive reform pilot specialty of the Ministry of education and Shanghai undergraduate specialty; Chinese language and Literature (normal) and primary education were selected as the excellent teacher training program reform project of the Ministry of education; advertising was selected as the excellent news and communication major of Shanghai Relying on the major, the tourism management major has been selected into the pilot specialty construction project of Application-oriented Undergraduate in Shanghai Municipal universities. 18 majors have been selected into Shanghai undergraduate education highland construction project.

The university has 6 first-class discipline doctoral programs, 46 second-class discipline doctoral programs, 9 post doctoral mobile stations, 29 first-class discipline master programs, 159 second-class discipline master programs, and 13 professional degree master programs. After decades of efforts, the university has established a number of disciplines with advantages and characteristics: comparative literature and world literature are national key disciplines; urban culture research center is the only key research base of Humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of education in local universities in Shanghai; International Education Research Center is the international education research and cultivation base of the Ministry of education; International Education Research Center is the international education research and cultivation base of the Ministry of education; The African research center is the regional and national research and cultivation base of the Ministry of education; the resource chemistry laboratory is the Key Laboratory of the Ministry of education and the joint international cooperation Laboratory of the Ministry of education; it has four E-research institutes of Shanghai universities, namely urban culture, computational science, comparative linguistics and international and comparative education. In addition, the university has 14 Shanghai key disciplines, 16 Shanghai Education Commission key disciplines, 1 Shanghai social science innovation research base, 2 Shanghai People's government decision-making consulting research base studios, 5 Shanghai University Humanities and social science key research bases, 2 Shanghai key laboratories and 2 Shanghai University key laboratories, 1 Shanghai University think tank, 2 Shanghai University think tanks, 2 Shanghai University think tanks, 3 Shanghai University think tanks; 1 Shanghai collaborative innovation center. In connection with the national "double first-class" construction, the school's Chinese language and literature, mathematics, pedagogy and other 11 disciplines entered the peak plateau discipline construction, and the number of selected disciplines ranked second in Shanghai Municipal universities. During the 12th Five Year Plan period, the university has won 14 major bidding projects from the National Social Science Fund, ranking first among Local Normal Universities in China. In the latest QS World University Discipline ranking, 9 disciplines meet the QS world-class discipline selection criteria, ranking eighth among all universities in Shanghai and second among municipal universities. According to the ESI comprehensive ranking of Chinese universities in May 2016, the University ranks 85th in China.

The school has a reasonable structure of teaching staff. It has a group of experts, scholars and outstanding young academic talents with certain influence at home and abroad. It has initially formed a high-level teaching staff with distinguished professors as the banner, discipline leaders with great academic influence as the backbone, and young and middle-aged academic backbone as the main body. There are 2915 teaching staff, including 1831 full-time teachers. Among the full-time teachers, 300 have senior professional and technical positions, 667 have deputy senior professional and technical positions, 1596 have doctor's and master's degrees, accounting for 86.1% of the full-time teachers, among which 948 have doctor's degrees. In addition, the school has set up a part-time teacher team of more than 500 people.

The school has two campuses, Xuhui and Fengxian, covering an area of 1.55 million square meters. The building area of the school is more than 770000 square meters, including 93000 square meters of classrooms, 299000 square meters of student dormitories and 72000 square meters of laboratories and practice places. There are nearly 3.5 million books in the two Central libraries and college reference rooms, more than 100 electronic literature databases and 8 self built databases with collection characteristics, and about 180000 ancient books and 1350 rare ancient books. Approved by the expert group of the State Council, the school was awarded "national key protection unit of ancient books" in 2009. Shanghai University porcelain art museum is one of the top ten national culture museums in Shanghai. The total fixed assets of the university is 2.403 billion yuan, including 644 million yuan of teaching and scientific research equipment.

The university has been listed as a scholarship institution of the Chinese government for international students in China and a preparatory base for foreign students in Shanghai. By the end of March 2016, the university has established exchanges and cooperation with 311 universities and organizations in 40 countries and regions on six continents. Ten Sino foreign cooperation projects have been held in cooperation with seven universities in six countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands, Russia and France. There are three Confucius institutes in Hiroshima, Fukuyama University, Botswana University of Africa and University of Missouri.

Over the past 60 years, the school has trained more than 200000 talents at all levels. In September 2007, comrade Xi Jinping, who was the Secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Committee, came to the school to visit the condolence teacher, to represent the municipal government, and to give priority to education. Adhering to the tradition and characteristics of normal education, the university has become a high-level and high-quality teacher training and training base for basic education in Shanghai, making important contributions to Shanghai's basic education. In the teaching staff of Shanghai basic education, nearly 70% of the backbone teachers and nearly 70% of the principals of primary and secondary schools are graduates of Shanghai Normal University. Among them, there are a number of outstanding representatives, such as Tang Shengchang, Liu Jinghai and Qiu Zhonghai, Shanghai Education heroes, Wu Xiaozhong and Gao Runhua, national outstanding principals, Tong YingYing and Zhang Yuqing. The two-way exchange project of mathematics teachers between China and Britain undertaken by the school has pushed the advantages of Shanghai's basic education to the world. Vice Premier Liu Yandong approved in the relevant report that this project has increased "confidence in China's education, and the experience of Shanghai's mathematics education should be summarized and promoted in China", which is a praise for Shanghai's basic education and a high affirmation of the tradition and characteristics of school teacher education. In addition to teacher education, the school also has a large number of outstanding alumni from all walks of life, such as academician Chu Junhao of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

In 2005, the university received the undergraduate teaching evaluation of the Ministry of education, and obtained excellent results. The evaluation expert group affirmed the orientation of the school, recognized the efforts made by the school to raise funds through various channels, expand the space for running the school and increase the investment in teaching under the condition of limited funds for running the school, and appreciated the achievements made by the school in vigorously implementing the strategy of strengthening the school with talents, continuously strengthening the management of teaching quality and consistently attaching importance to the construction of teachers' ethics and style of study in the process of running the school; It has recognized the school's characteristics of inheriting the fine tradition of normal education formed for a long time and infiltrating the normal spirit into all kinds of talent cultivation. At the same time, the evaluation expert group also pointed out that the school needs to further strengthen the construction of new professional teachers, further deepen the reform of experimental teaching, and optimize the experimental teaching system.

The university takes professional evaluation as an important means to comprehensively strengthen internal quality management and personnel training quality. From 2013 to 2014, the university took the lead in implementing professional independent evaluation for undergraduate majors in Shanghai universities, inviting discipline, management and industry experts to evaluate professional positioning, training objectives, school running level and personnel training quality. According to the evaluation results and the suggestions of the expert group, the university has implemented a series of deepening reform measures, including specialty adjustment, major training, annual report system of specialty quality, performance appraisal of specialty management, revision of training plan, etc., which have achieved good results.

In recent years, the school adheres to the spirit of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the third, fourth and fifth plenary sessions of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, As well as the requirements of the "comprehensive reform plan of Shanghai Education", actively adapt to the needs of Shanghai's excellent global urban construction, international economic, financial, trade, shipping, scientific and technological innovation center and cultural metropolis construction, strive to serve Shanghai, at the same time, take the Yangtze River Delta as the core, radiate and contribute to the national economic and social development. In line with the era background of accelerating convergence and integration of scientific and technological revolution and industrial revolution, the University consciously integrates into the trend of higher education reform, adheres to the talent training concept of "thick foundation, heavy practice and internationalization" and the education and teaching concept of "value guidance, knowledge teaching and ability training", and is committed to improving students' core competence quality by constructing the value system and knowledge system of talent training Eight reform measures have been carried out to promote the four changes in the process of talent training and teaching. A talent training mode of comprehensive development, personality development and excellent development has been formed, which highlights the cultivation of excellent teachers, the internationalization of talent training, and the independent evaluation around majors

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