University of Shanghai for Science and Technology is a Shanghai municipal key applied research university with engineering as its main discipline and coordinated development of engineering, science, economics, management, literature, law, art and other disciplines. It is one of the first pilot units for the construction of "high-level local universities" in Shanghai and a pilot university for the new round of comprehensive reform in Shanghai.
The university has 18 colleges (divisions) and currently has more than 30,000 full-time students, including more than 18,000 undergraduates and more than 12,000 postgraduates. There are more than 2,700 faculty members, including 7 academicians (including dual appointments), 108 national talents, 442 provincial and ministerial talents, 1,007 teachers with senior titles, and 646 doctoral supervisors. In recent years, the school has continuously optimized its discipline layout and now offers 64 undergraduate programs, including 20 national first-class program construction points and 13 Shanghai first-class program construction points. There are 9 first-level discipline doctoral degree authorization points, 2 professional doctoral degree authorization points, 29 first-level discipline master's degree authorization points, 20 professional master's degree authorization points, and 8 postdoctoral research work stations. It has 29 national-level and 53 provincial-level teaching platforms, and 7 national-level and 48 provincial-level research platforms. Engineering, materials science, chemistry, computer science, environment/ecology, agricultural science, physics, mathematics, social sciences in general, biology and biochemistry, and clinical medicine are all in the top 1% of ESI globally, and engineering is in the top 1‰.
