Shanghai Normal University

Shanghai

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About UniversityShanghai Normal University

Founded in 1954, SHNU boasts 11 disciplines from 19 colleges, more than 20, 000 undergraduates, 8, 000 postgraduates and over 1,100 overseas students. Until this year, SHNU has 9 first-degree disciplines of doctoral candidates, 33 first-degree disciplines of master ’ s programs, 9 post-doctoral programs, 1 national key lab disciplines, 11 Shanghai municipal key disciplines, 11 Shanghai Peak and Plateau Programs, 4 Characteristic Disciplines Construction of Higher Education programs, 1 Comprehensive Reforms Trial of Undergraduate Majors of Shanghai, 3 Outstanding Teachers ’ Training and Reforms programs of Education Ministry of China, 1 Neoindustrial Research and Practices program of China, 8 Undergraduates ’ Trial Majors of Applied Science for Universities in Shanghai, and 18 Undergraduate Education Construction Programs of Shanghai. Moreover, 5 SHNU disciplines have been listed as top 1 perent of ESI. SHNU also owns a series of key national science and social science labs as well as research centers. In recent years, SHNU has successfully been approved of 520 state-level programs. Particularyly, SHNu also boasts a collection of over 3 million books, more than 100 electronic databases and about 120, 000 ancient books. The SHNU Ceramics Arts Museum is one of the ten most influential mueums of traditional culture and arts in Shanghai. The SHNU established cooperative education partnership with 7 universities in the USA, the UK, Germany, Netherlands, Russia and France. It has two Confucius Institutes in Japan Fukuyama University and University of Botswana in Africa.

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History With a history traced back to 1984, the university developed from three institutions: the Shanghai Administrative Institute of Politics and Law, the Shanghai Judicial College, and the Shanghai University Law school. The university initiated its undergraduate programs in 1993, and master’s degree programs in 1998. In September 2004, the Shanghai Municipal Government approved the establishment of Shanghai University of Political Science and Law and gave it the status of an independent university. In November 2014, the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission became the university’s supervising authority, and the university has since been operated by the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission and the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Justice. SHUPL now has more than 11000 students and 700 staff. According to the 2020 Academic Ranking of World Universities, SHUPL ranks 4th among the universities of political science and law in China. 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Entrusted by central government departments including the Ministry of Public Security, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Commerce, the institute has completed a number of training missions the Supreme People’s Court Belt and Road” Judicial Research Base，Supreme People's Pastorate SCO Procurator Training Base，Ministry of Justice Preparatory office of China-SCO legal service committee，Ministry of Justice Cooperation base of China-SCO legal service committee，Ministry of Justice Mediation Theory Research and Talent Training Base, the regional and country research center authorized and registered by the Ministry of Education, a humanities and social sciences research base for universities in Shanghai, Shanghai Education Legislation Counseling and Service Research Base, and Shanghai Normative Document Filing Review Research Center. 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Shanghai

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Its 58 departments offer a total of 84 undergraduate programs in humanities, education, science, engineering, economics, management, philosophy, psychology, law, history and art. In addition, the University also offers 30 doctoral programs, 36 master's programs, one professional doctoral program, 21 professional master's programs, and 26 post-doctoral mobile research stations. As of May 2022, the university has 31 primary disciplines authorized for doctoral degrees, 35 primary disciplines authorized for master's degrees, 3 secondary disciplines authorized for master's degrees, 22 professional master's degrees and doctoral degrees in education, 26 postdoctoral research stations, and 85 undergraduate majors. 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