Shanghai Jiao Tong University - Exchange Programme

Shanghai Jiao Tong University is one of China’s most prestigious and selective universities, enjoying a growing global reputation for its impressive research outputs. Founded in 1896 by a civil servant, the institution gained a reputation for its expertise for nurturing top engineers and scientists, becoming known as the ‘Eastern MIT’. It now has more than 60 undergraduate programmes covering nine major disciplines - economics, law, literature, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, management and arts – with more than 16,000 undergraduates and more than 280,000 postgraduates, including more than 6,000 doctoral candidates on around 200 programmes. It also has 11 state laboratories and national engineering research centres.

The university’s faculty includes around 2,800 full-time academics, of whom 890 are professors, with 22 members of Chinese Academy of Sciences and 24 members of Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Allied to its highly-regarded research, outstanding education remains a cornerstone of the university’s ethos. It has 12 national teaching development centres, nine national off-campus practice education bases and six national experimental teaching demonstration centres among other initiatives.