East China Normal University

East China Normal University is a comprehensive research university with a long scholarly tradition and an excellent reputation, directly under the Ministry of Education and jointly supported as a priority institution by Shanghai. Founded on October 16, 1951, it is a key university under Project 211 and Project 985. In 2017, it joined the Class A group for national world-class university development, beginning a new journey toward first-class status rooted in China.

Its main campuses are Minhang, at 500 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai, and Putuo, at 3663 North Zhongshan Road, Shanghai. It has 4 faculties, 34 schools or departments, 32 university-administered research platforms and 3 residential colleges. It has more than 15800 undergraduates, over 4000 doctoral students, more than 17000 master’s students and over 3000 international students, including non-degree students. Its more than 4200 faculty and staff include over 2300 full-time teachers and more than 2100 professors and other senior-title teachers, among them 5 full-time academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Engineering and related academies, and over 890 selections in national and Shanghai talent programs.

Its 62 undergraduate admission programs cover 12 categories: literature, history, philosophy, education, economics, science, engineering, management, law, the arts, medicine and interdisciplinary studies. It offers doctoral degrees in 36 first-level disciplines, master’s degrees in 37 first-level and 3 second-level disciplines, 36 professional master’s categories, 8 professional doctoral categories and 27 postdoctoral research stations. It sponsors, operates or jointly publishes 23 Chinese-language and 8 English-language journals. Its physical library holdings exceed 5.4840 million items, with 172 electronic document databases containing 502 subdatabases.

The university emphasizes international cooperation and has academic cooperation and exchange agreements with more than 300 universities and research institutions worldwide. It hosts an international Chinese teacher training base and is the Chinese partner for 5 Confucius Institutes and 1 independent Confucius Classroom. As one of China’s earliest universities to provide international student education, it welcomes students from around the world for further study. It offers degree and non-degree programs, and its international Chinese language education is renowned globally. Each year, nearly 6000 international students from over 130 countries study at the university, whose overall international student enrollment has ranked among China’s top ten for many years.