Shanghai Jiao Tong University, formerly the Nang Yang Public School, was founded in 1896 by Mr. SHENG Xuanhuai. Among the famous and outstanding alumni are JIANG Zemin, the Secretary General of CPC and the President of the People's Republic of China, and WANG Daohan, ZOU Taofen, LU Dingyi, MAO Yisheng, QIAN Xuesen, CAI Er, WANG An, etc.

    Today SJTU has 16 schools: the schools of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Power and Energy Resources Engineering, Electronics and Information Technology, Electric Power Engineering, Material Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Sciences, Life Science and Technology, Humanities and Social Science, Civil Engineering and Mechanics, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Aetna school of Management, Foreign Languages, Agriculture, Environmental Science and Engineering and Pharmaceutics and 50 departments including Department of Plastic Technology and the Department of Physical Education and 80 institutes. In addition, SJTU has also set up the Graduate Schools and Schools for Continuing Education. Up till now SJTU has 74 Masters degree programs, 42 Ph.D. programs and 8 national key disciplines and 5 national key laboratories and national engineering research centers.