Shanghai Maritime University ( SMU )

The Shanghai Maritime University is an internationally renowned multi-disciplinary university that offers courses in science, liberal arts, law, engineering, management and economics. But as the name suggests, special emphasis is laid on shipping technology, economics and management.

TRACING THE ROOTS
This prestigious university traces its origin to the Shipping Section of Shanghai Industrial College founded in 1909. This also marked the beginning of maritime education in China. Over the years the college underwent changes, merged with different institutions and finally culminating in the establishment of the present Shanghai Maritime University in 1959 by the Ministry of Communications of the People’s Republic of China. A new campus at Lingang was inaugurated in 2008.

PROGRAMS OF STUDY AND FACILITIES OFFRERED
This seat of higher learning, at present offers 45 bachelor’s degree programs, 57 master’s degree programs, 17 doctoral programs, and 12 associate degree programs besides running 2 post-doctoral research stations. SMU also houses 1 state-level key discipline, 5 state-level specialties with special features, 9 provincial and municipal key research institutes and laboratories, 9 ministerial or municipal key disciplines, and 17 Shanghai municipal “educational heights”. The other facilities offered at the university are an aquatic training center, a newly-built 48-thousand-ton Yangtze handymax bulk carrier named Yuming ship , used for teaching and internship training, and another 10-thousand-ton container ship known as the Yufeng Ship for teaching and internship training.

DIFFERENT COLLEGES OF STUDY
The different colleges of study at the university are College of Ocean Science and Engineering, Merchant Marine College, Scientific Research Academy, College of Transport and Communications, College of Logistics Engineering (Sino-Dutch Mechanical and Electronic Engineering College), School of Economics & Management, Law School, College of Arts and Sciences, College of Information Engineering, and College of Foreign Languages.

TOTAL NUMBER OF STUDENTS
At present a total of 20,000 full-time students are pursuing their studies in the various departments of the university. These include 17,000 undergraduates and over 3,000 postgraduate students. The students after passing out from the university are hired by shipping companies, port enterprises and government institutions. The demand of its graduates in different institutions has earned the university the name of “cradle of international shipping specialists”.

TEACHING STAFF
SMU has in its rolls over 1,000 full-time teachers. Out of these 141 are professors and 46 percent of the teachers are doctorates. Besides these more than 130 long-term and short-terms overseas visiting scholars are also teaching at the university. These foreign scholars are playing an increasingly important role in the university’s daily teaching and researches.

INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE AND COOPERATION
The Shanghai Maritime University attaches great importance to international cooperation and has collaborated with more than 60 colleges and universities from different countries like Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Taiwan Province of China, Japan, Korea, Hongkong, United States of America, Canada, Egypt, Chile, Australia, New Zealand, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Italy, Holland, UK, France, Germany, Poland, Switzerland and Turkey.

• Merchant Marine College


• Transport College


• Economics and Management College


• Information Engineering College


• Logistics Engineering College


• Sino-Dutch Mechatronics Engineering School


• Foreign Languages College


• The Center for Chinese Studies


• Ocean Enviromental and Engineering College


• School of Law


• Liberal Arts and Science College


• Scientific Research Academy