Message from the President

Welcome to Shanghai University!

Founded in 1922, SHU is a university with honored traditions. It has a great diversity in its faculty and students, a global outlook, and outstanding research foundations; it is also a university of compelling changes. SHU is very much like the city of Shanghai itself: a large, multicultural community with tremendous opportunities and resources. And, like Shanghai, it has been growing at a rapid pace over the past 2 decades, providing the staff and students with state-of-the-art facilities to pursue their own academic and research paths.

Every day walking through our modern and cosmopolitan campus, I am inspired to see staff and students from more than 100 different countries and regions assembling together to fulfill their academic dreams, challenge the boundaries of human knowledge and play a pivotal role in solving pressing problems that our world faces.

The fast development of human society raises tough requirements on higher education. Instead of being complacent about the glorious past, we are striving to achieve a better future, to become a world-leading university with global prestige of diversification, internationalization and innovation.

With a forward-looking mission, a far-sighted objectives on talent cultivation, a global vision and an impulse for innovation, as well as the dedication of all our staff, SHU is fast becoming a paramount player in education, both domestically and internationally.

Sincerely yours
LIU Changsheng
President of Shanghai University