Shanghai Normal University

Shanghai Normal University is a key construction university in Shanghai, and a pilot unit for the construction of high-level local universities (disciplines) in Shanghai. Ministry of Humanities and Social Sciences Key Research Base, Ministry of Education Excellent Teacher Training Program Implementing Universities, "National Training Program", National University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program, National New Engineering Research and Practice Project, Chinese Government Scholarship International Students Accepting Institutions , the Chinese Education Base of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council, the Shanghai Preparatory Base for Foreign Students, the first batch of demonstration universities in Shanghai to deepen the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education, a member of the Shanghai-Hong Kong University Alliance, and a governing unit of the China University Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Alliance. A comprehensive university with coordinated development of liberal arts, science, engineering, and art disciplines with educational characteristics. The school was founded in 1954 and was then named Shanghai Normal College. In 1956, it was expanded into undergraduate colleges Shanghai No. 1 Normal College and Shanghai No. 2 Normal College. In 1958, the two schools merged to form Shanghai Normal College. In 1972, the five schools merged to form Shanghai Normal University. In 1978, Shanghai Normal University was restored. In 1981, it became the first batch of master's degree conferring units in the country. It was renamed Shanghai Normal University in 1984. In 1986, it was approved as a doctoral degree conferring unit. In 1994, it merged with Shanghai Technical Normal University to form the new Shanghai Normal University. From 1997 to 2003, Shanghai Normal College, Nanlin Normal School Huangling Health Care Teachers Department, Shanghai Xingzhi Art Normal School, Shanghai Teacher Training Center, Shanghai Tourism College, etc. were successively merged or placed under the school management . As of December 2021, the school has two campuses, Xuhui and Fengxian, covering an area of about 1.35 million square meters, a building area of more than 720,000 square meters, and a library collection of more than 3.3 million books; there are more than 20,000 full-time undergraduate students and more than 8,900 graduate students , more than 1,000 international students.