Shanghai Normal University

Shanghai Normal University is a key university in Shanghai. It is a comprehensive university among the local universities in Shanghai that excels in liberal arts and has a teacher education feature, with coordinated development of liberal arts, science and engineering disciplines.

The university has more than 21,000 full-time undergraduate and junior college students, more than 7,000 postgraduate students, and more than 13,000 evening students. There are more than 2,300 international students and students on campus each year, and the school is listed as a Chinese Government Scholarship and Confucius Institute Scholarship institution for international students. Over the past 60-plus years since its establishment, the school has produced more than 130,000 talents of all kinds. In Shanghai's primary and secondary schools, nearly 70 percent of primary and secondary school teachers and nearly 70 percent of middle school principals are graduates of our school.

Faculty The school has a well-structured faculty with a group of experts, scholars and outstanding young academic talents who have a certain influence at home and abroad. There are currently 2,915 staff members, including 1,831 full-time teachers. Among the full-time teachers, 300 have senior professional titles and 667 have associate senior professional titles; There are 1,596 teachers with doctoral or master's degrees, accounting for 86.1% of the full-time teachers, among whom 948 have doctoral degrees. In addition, a part-time teaching staff of around 500 has been formed.

The school has two main campuses in Xuhui and Fengxian, covering an area of more than 1.55 million square meters. The total floor area of the school buildings is 770,000 square meters, including 93,000 square meters of classrooms, 299,000 square meters of student dormitories, and 72,000 square meters of on-campus laboratories and internship sites. Two central libraries have a collection of nearly 3.5 million volumes, nearly 100 e-books and 8 databases with distinctive collections; The Shanghai University Porcelain Museum, located on our campus, is one of the top ten university museums of ethnic culture in Shanghai. With over 180,000 volumes of ancient books and more than 1,350 rare ancient books, it was approved by the expert group of The State Council to be awarded the title of "National Key Ancient Books Protection Unit". The total value of fixed assets of the university is nearly 2.403 billion yuan, of which assets of teaching and research instruments and equipment amount to 644 million yuan.