Shanghai Jiao Tong University or
SJTU), sometimes referred to as
Shanghai Jiaotong University (no space), is a top public research university located in
ShanghaiShanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...
,
ChinaChina , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...
. Shanghai Jiao Tong University is known as one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in
ChinaChinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
. It is also a member of the
C9 LeagueThe C9 League is an association of nine Chinese universities, which were selected by the Chinese government in 1998.On May 4, 1998, Project 985 was initiated by the Chinese government in order to advance the higher education system. In the first phase, nine universities were selected and allocated...
in China.
History
In 1896,
Nanyang Public School was founded in
ShanghaiShanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...
by an imperial edict issued by
Guangxu EmperorThe Guangxu Emperor , born Zaitian of the Aisin-Gioro clan, was the eleventh emperor of the Manchurian Qing Dynasty, and the ninth Qing emperor to rule over China. His reign lasted from 1875 to 1908, but in practice he ruled, under Empress Dowager Cixi's influence, only from 1889 to 1898...
, under the Business and Telegraphs Office of the
imperial governmentThe Qing Dynasty was the last dynasty of China, ruling from 1644 to 1912 with a brief, abortive restoration in 1917. It was preceded by the Ming Dynasty and followed by the Republic of China....
. Four schools were established: the
normal schoolA normal school is a school created to train high school graduates to be teachers. Its purpose is to establish teaching standards or norms, hence its name...
, school of foreign studies, middle school and a high school.
Sheng XuanhuaiSheng Xuanhuai , November 4, 1844—April 27, 1916, 盛宣懷) was the Minister of Transportation during the Qing Dynasty. He is also known as Sheng Gongbao ....
, the proposer of the edict, became the first president and was regarded as the founder of the university.
In 1904, the Ministry of Commerce took over the school, and one year later changed its name to
Imperial Polytechnic College of the Commerce Ministry. In 1906, the college was placed under the Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs, and its name was changed to
Shanghai Industrial College of the Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs. When the
Republic of ChinaThe Republic of China , commonly known as Taiwan , is a unitary sovereign state located in East Asia. Originally based in mainland China, the Republic of China currently governs the island of Taiwan , which forms over 99% of its current territory, as well as Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu and other minor...
was founded, the college was run by the Ministry of Communications and its name was once again changed, this time to
Government Institute of Technology of the Communications Ministry. In 1918, the republic government founded the School of Management and it became one of the oldest academic institutes.
In 1920, the institute merged with two other colleges and changed its name to
Nan Yang College of Chiao Tung. In the 1930s, it was known as the "Eastern
MITThe Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...
" due to its reputation of nurturing top engineers. In 1938, the Ministry of Education took over the university and renamed it
National Chiao Tung University (the separate institution of
National Chiao Tung UniversityNational Chiao Tung University is a public university located in Hsinchu, Taiwan. It is recognized as one of the most prestigious and selective universities in Taiwan and is renowned for its research and teaching excellence in electrical engineering, computer science, engineering, management, and...
in
TaiwanTaiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
, is still known by name). In 1943, the graduate school was founded.
After the
Chinese Civil WarThe Chinese Civil War was a civil war fought between the Kuomintang , the governing party of the Republic of China, and the Communist Party of China , for the control of China which eventually led to China's division into two Chinas, Republic of China and People's Republic of...
in 1949, the new Communist government adopted a policy of creating Soviet-style
specialized schoolSpecialized schools are secondary schools with enhanced coverage of certain subjects that constitute the specialization of the school. They should not be confused with vocational schools, whose goal is to deliver skills for a particular type of job....
s. Under this policy, some faculties of the university were incorporated into other universities. At the same time, engineering faculties from outside were absorbed to create a specialized engineering university. A bigger rearrangement came in 1956 for the school when the national government decided to send a significant amount of its faculties to
Xi'anXi'an is the capital of the Shaanxi province, and a sub-provincial city in the People's Republic of China. One of the oldest cities in China, with more than 3,100 years of history, the city was known as Chang'an before the Ming Dynasty...
to help create another top engineering school -
Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityXi'an Jiaotong University , also known as Xi'an Chiao Tung University, is a top Chinese university located in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, People's Republic of China. Xi'an Jiaotong University is located in Xi'an, the ancient capital of China...
in western Chinese province Shaanxi. Afterwards, the school was officially renamed
Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Shanghai Second Medical University was merged into Shanghai Jiao Tong University on July 18, 2005, under the name
Medical School of Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Academics, enrollment, and staff
The university comprises 20 academic schools, two directly affiliated departments and one
graduate schoolA graduate school is a school that awards advanced academic degrees with the general requirement that students must have earned a previous undergraduate degree...
. It has a School of Continuing (adult) Education, School of Online Learning, School of International Education, and a
Vocational SchoolA vocational school , providing vocational education, is a school in which students are taught the skills needed to perform a particular job...
. There are 60 undergraduate programs, 179 master-degree programs, 6 professional master-degree programs, 22 disciplines and 143 sub-disciplines authorized to confer Ph.D. degrees, 23 post-doctorate programs, 22 state key doctorate programs and six state key laboratories and four national engineering centers.
The enrollment of full-time students amounts to over 38,000. There are 19,432 undergraduates, 13,628 candidates for Master's and Doctor's degrees and 2,080 foreign students.
The university has more than 1,420 professors and associate professors, including 15 academicians of the
Chinese Academy of SciencesThe Chinese Academy of Sciences , formerly known as Academia Sinica, is the national academy for the natural sciences of the People's Republic of China. It is an institution of the State Council of China. It is headquartered in Beijing, with institutes all over the People's Republic of China...
, 20 academicians of the
Chinese Academy of EngineeringThe Chinese Academy of Engineering is the national academy of the People's Republic of China for engineering. It was established in 1994 and is an institution of the State Council of China...
, seven chief scientists of the national 973 project, and 31 Cheung Kong Scholars.
Academic Ranking of World Universities
Since 2003, Shanghai Jiao Tong University has produced the
Academic Ranking of World UniversitiesThe Academic Ranking of World Universities , commonly known as the Shanghai ranking, is a publication that was founded and compiled by the Shanghai Jiaotong University to rank universities globally. The rankings have been conducted since 2003 and updated annually...
which analyzes the top universities in the world on quality of faculty (40%), research output (40%), quality of education (10%) and performance vs. size (10%). Its ranking is exclusively of research universities, mainly in the empirical sciences.
The 2011
QS World University RankingsThe QS World University Rankings is a ranking of the world’s top 500 universities by Quacquarelli Symonds using a method that has published annually since 2004....
placed the university at 124th internationally, however, 37th worldwide for Engineering & IT.
Directly affiliated departments
Graduate school
Affiliated institutes
Xuhui Campus
The previous main campus was located in
Xuhui DistrictXuhui District is a district of Shanghai. It has a land area of 54.76 km² and a population of 982,200 as of 2008 .The Xuhui District is centred on Xujiahui, after which it is named. Xujiahui was historically land owned by Ming dynasty bureaucrat and scientist Xu Guangqi, and later donated to the...
of Shanghai, formerly a largely Catholic area and a site of several educational institutions.
Most buildings on campus were influenced by American architecture, while the main gate, which was built in 1935, is of traditional Chinese style reflecting the University's earlier status as the "Imperial Polytechnic College". The approaches to the main gate were via a series of marble bridges, similar to, although smaller than, those built in front of
TiananmenThe Tiananmen, Tian'anmen or Gate of Heavenly Peace is a famous monument in Beijing, the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is widely used as a national symbol. First built during the Ming Dynasty in 1420, Tian'anmen is often referred to as the front entrance to the Forbidden City...
. However, recent road expansions have demolished the river as well as most of bridges. A copy of this famous gate scene have been built on the east of Minhang campus.
The construction of the campus never came to an end in the past century. Existing buildings: the Medium College building(built in 1898), the original library (built in 1919), the gymnasium (built in 1925), the administrative building (built in 1933), the Xinjian building (built in 1953), the new Upper College building (built in 1955), the second teaching building (built in 1960), Bao Zhaolong library (built in 1985) and Haoran high-tech building (built in 1996) were constructed one after another.
The university's School of International Education is located here, where a large number of international students take classes throughout the academic year (however, most international students that take degree courses are in Minhang campus). The campus still houses a variety of scientific research institutions,
State Key Laboratory of Ocean Engineering for instance, although most moved to the new campus since 1987.
Minhang Campus
The Minhang campus is located in the
Minhang DistrictThe Minhang District of Shanghai has a land area of 371.57 km2 and population of 2,429,000 residents as of 2010.It is mostly a residential district, though it is also home to some of the many factories and production facilities in Shanghai. Residential housing development is the main source of...
on the outskirts of metropolitan
ShanghaiShanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...
. This young campus, which was founded in 1987, covers 2,822,903m
2 once farmland. Zizhu Science Park, where Intel, ST Microelectronics,
MicrosoftMicrosoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
,
SandiskSanDisk Corporation is an American multinational corporation that designs, develops and manufactures data storage solutions in a range of form factors using the flash memory, controller and firmware technologies. It was founded in 1988 by Dr. Eli Harari and Sanjay Mehrotra, non-volatile memory...
and other high-tech companies put their
research and developmentThe phrase research and development , according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, refers to "creative work undertaken on a systematic basis in order to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of man, culture and society, and the use of this stock of...
centers, is to the south of the campus.
Currently, most administrative and academic framework of the university and the majority of undergraduate and graduate students have situated in this campus, which is now accompanied by the newly built Minhang Campus of
East China Normal UniversityEast China Normal University , was founded in October 1951 in western Shanghai, on the campus of Great China University. It is the first Normal University founded after the establishment of the People's Republic of China.-History:...
.
South Chongqing Road Campus
It is formerly the campus of Shanghai Second Medical University, which is located in the
Luwan DistrictLuwan District was a district located in central Shanghai, China until its merger with Huangpu District, Shanghai in June 2011. It had an area of 8.05 km² and population of 350,000 as of 2001.- Location :...
of Shanghai. The
Aurora University (Shanghai)Aurora University was a pre-eminent Catholic university in Shanghai from 1903 to 1952.The founder was Father Joseph Ma Xiangbo S.J. and French Jesuits. The University was founded on 27th February, 1903. Ma Xiangbo left in 1906 and the university was kept by French Jesuits until the coming of...
, a pre-eminent Catholic university in Shanghai, was located there before 1952.
Qibao Campus
In 1999, Shanghai Agricultural College was merged into SJTU, and its campus became Qibao Campus of the university. It's located in 2678 Qixin Rd. Postal code is 201101.
Shangzhong Road Campus
In the year of 2006, Shanghai Jiao Tong University sold this campus to
Shanghai High SchoolShanghai High School is a top public high school in Shanghai municipality, People's Republic of China. It also has an international division, the Shanghai High School International Division.-Location and Campuses:...
.
Fahuazhen Road Campus
This campus is where Jiao Tong's Antai College of Economics and Management is located.
Notable alumni and faculty
Of all the fellows of the
Chinese Academy of SciencesThe Chinese Academy of Sciences , formerly known as Academia Sinica, is the national academy for the natural sciences of the People's Republic of China. It is an institution of the State Council of China. It is headquartered in Beijing, with institutes all over the People's Republic of China...
and
Chinese Academy of EngineeringThe Chinese Academy of Engineering is the national academy of the People's Republic of China for engineering. It was established in 1994 and is an institution of the State Council of China...
, more than 200 are the alumni of Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
- Qian Xuesen (钱学森) - missile and space program chief scientist
- Jiang Zemin
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(江泽民) - former CPC General Secretary and President of the People's Republic of ChinaThe President of the People's Republic of China is a ceremonial office and a part of State organs under the National People's Congress and it is the head of state of the People's Republic of China . The office was created by the 1982 Constitution...
- Wang Daohan
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(汪道涵) - paramount politician who held the famous Wang-Koo talks together with Koo Chen-fuKoo Chen-fu , was a Taiwanese businessman and diplomat. He led the Koos Group of companies from 1940 until his death. As a chairman of the Straits Exchange Foundation , Koo arranged the first direct talks between Taiwan and China since 1949 and served as Taiwan's negotiator in both the 1993 and...
- Cai E
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(蔡锷) - famous general, founder of the Republican Protection Army against Yuan ShikaiYuan Shikai was an important Chinese general and politician famous for his influence during the late Qing Dynasty, his role in the events leading up to the abdication of the last Qing Emperor of China, his autocratic rule as the second President of the Republic of China , and his short-lived...
- Chow Wen Tsing/Wen Tsing Chow
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(周文俊) - missile guidance scientist and digital computer pioneer
- Ding Guangen
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(丁关根) - politician
- Lu Dingyi
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(陆定一) - politician
- Huang Yanpei
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(黃炎培) - politician
- Jiang Jianqing
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(姜建清) - president and chairman of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of ChinaIndustrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd. is the largest bank in the world by profit and market capitalization. It is one China's 'Big Four' state-owned commercial banks .It was founded as a limited company on January 1, 1984...
.
- Shen Neil/Neil Shen (沈南鵬) - founder of Ctrip.com, head of Sequoia
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China.
- Qiang Boqin (强伯勤) - molecular biologist
- Shao Lizi (邵力子) - literature, politician
- Teng Shanghua
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(滕尚华) - computer scientist, Gödel PrizeThe Gödel Prize is a prize for outstanding papers in theoretical computer science, named after Kurt Gödel and awarded jointly by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science and the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory .The...
winner
- Wang An/An Wang
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(王安) - computer scientist and inventor, founder of Wang LaboratoriesWang Laboratories was a computer company founded in 1951 by Dr. An Wang and Dr. G. Y. Chu. The company was successively headquartered in Cambridge , Tewksbury , and finally in Lowell, Massachusetts . At its peak in the 1980s, Wang Laboratories had annual revenues of $3 billion and employed over...
- Wang Jin-Shan/Jin-Shan Wang
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- chemist, pioneer of ATRP (chemistry)Atom transfer radical polymerization is an example of a living polymerization or a controlled/living radical polymerization . Like its counter part, ATRA or atom transfer radical addition, it is a means of forming carbon-carbon bond through transition metal catalyst...
- Wang Zhenyi/Zhen-yi Wang
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(王振义) - hematologist
- Wu Wenjun
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(吴文俊) - mathematician
- Xu Guangxian
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(徐光宪) - chemist
- Yang Yuanqing
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(杨元庆) - chairman of the Lenovo Group Limited
- Zhang Guangdou
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(张光斗) - world-renowned specialist in hydraulic engineering
- Zhang Zhongjun
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- Dean and founder of Department of Electrical Engineering & Autonomics, and responsible for the electric power system of Shanghai.
- Zou Taofen (邹韬奋) - correspondent
- Luc Montagnier
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(吕克·蒙塔尼耶) - Nobel Prize laureate for the discovery of HIVHuman immunodeficiency virus is a lentivirus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome , a condition in humans in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive...
- Ding Junhui
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(丁俊晖) - Professional snooker player
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