Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU)

The Shanghai Jiao Tong University was established in Shanghai, People’s Republic of China (PRC), in 1896. This centurion-old seat of higher learning is one of the premier and oldest universities of the country. It is included in the country’s Yangtze Delta Universities Alliance and the C9 League. Renowned as the ‘Eastern MIT’, quite a number of its alumni are prominent doctors and engineers.

NOMENCLATURE

The nomenclature of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (abbreviated to SJTU or Jiao Da or 交大) is written as 上海交通大学 in In Chinese. It is also alluded to as ‘Jiaotong University’ or as Shanghai Jiaotong University.  The forbearers of this institution were the Nanyang Public School, the Nan Yang College of Chiao Tung, the National Chiao Tung University, and the Jiao Tong University

CAMPUSES

The total area of Shanghai Jiao Tong University is spread over an area of 3,225,833 square meters. The institution has the following five campuses at Fahua, Luwan, Minhang, Qibao, and Xuhui.

TRACING ITS ROOTS

This roots of this prominent research institution in the country’s public sector have been traced to the Nanyang Public School (南洋公學 in Chinese)established following an edict issued in 1896 by Guangxu Emperor. The Imperial Government placed the institution under the control of its Business and Telegraphs Office. The idea of setting up this school was first given to the Chinese Emperor by Sheng Xuanhuai, who was subsequently made the founder president of this significant establishment. Besides the Normal School, its management looked after the following three other schools, namely a high school, the school of foreign studies, and the middle school.

The institution was rechristened as the ‘Imperial Polytechnic College’ in 1905, just one year after the Ministry of Commerce took over its management. The College was brought under the Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs in 1906 when the institution was renamed as the ‘Shanghai Industrial College’. The college was managed by the Ministry of Communications at the time when the Republic of China was formed and following the creation of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), it was rechristened as the ‘Government Institute of Technology’. The School of Management was opened in the institution in 1918. This wing of SJTU is one the oldest institutes in PRC. Two other colleges were merged with the institute, and it was renamed as the ‘Nan Yang College of Chiao Tung’ in 1920. The institution came under the Ministry of Education, and it was rechristened as the National Chiao Tung University (國立交通大學 in Chinese) in 1938. There is another institution of the same name in Taiwan. The graduate wing of the university was added in 1943.

Academic & Department

Engineering

• School of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Civil Engineering


• School of Mechanical Engineering


• School of Nuclear Science and Engineering


• School of Electronic, Information and Electrical Engineering


• School of Information Security Engineering


• School of Software


• School of Microelectronics


• School of Materials Science and Engineering


• School of Environmental Science and Engineering


• Department of Plasticity Forming Engineering


• UM-SJTU Joint Institute


• School of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Science

• Department of Mathematics


• Department of Physics


• School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering


• SJTU College

Life Science

• School of Life Science and Technology


• School of Agriculture and Biology


• School of Medicine


• School of Pharmacy

Arts and Humanities

• School of Humanities


• Antai College of Economics and Management


• School of Economics


• School of Management


• KoGuan Law School


• School of International and Public Affairs


• School of Media and Design


• School of Foreign Languages


• School of Marxism


• Department of Physical Education


• Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance