A key university under the direct auspices of the Ministry of Education .It is located in modern metropolis Shanghai and is known as a “garden school” for its beautiful campus. A research university with an extensive range of disciplines including education, social sciences, humanities, natural sciences and technologies, and administrative sciences. Boasts a strong faculty and advanced instruction facilities. The University has 18schools consisting of 39 departments with 61 undergraduate programmes, 118 Master’s programmes, 94 doctoral programmes and 10 post-doctoral programmes. It enrolls 12,688 full time undergraduates and about 7,000 postgraduates. Has had over 10,000 international students since the 1960s, both degree students and non-degree learners of Chinese. One of the eight State Bases for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language.