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 Shanghai
Jiao Tong University (SJTU) is a key university of China.
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.
SJTU
has assembled a large number of well-known teachers and lecturers,
including some famous scientists and professors. Today SJTU has
14 Academicians
of Academia Science and of China
Academy of Engineering and 1,
200 professors and associate
professors.
Today
there are 18,000 students
in SJTU, including 14,000 undergraduates
and 4000 postgraduates
and Ph. D. students, 4,000
continuing students and over 290
foreign students. Students from SJTU
have achieved top prizes in various competitions.
SJTU
is undergoing rapid development and growth. Now, it has five campuses,
the Xuhui, the Minhang, the Qibao, the Shangzhong Road and the Fahuazheng
Road. Over the past decade, the area of campuses
from 40 ha
to 175 ha.
SJTU has built the new campus in Minhang District, Shanghai. The
new campus has an area of 297 acre.
The completion of the construction of Minhang Campus is the new
starting point and new hope in the history of development of Shanghai
Jiao Tong University.
SJTU
has been actively involved in the exchange and cooperation with
other countries. Up till now, SJTU has establishSed relations with
more than 60 universities
abroad as well as a large number of
foreign research institutions and corporations. SJTU has invited
more than 100 famous
scientists, including the Nobel prize winners and physicists
Yang Zhenning, Li
Zhengdao and Ding Zaozhong.
SJTU sends excellent teachers and students abroad every year to
give lectures, to study or to attend international academic conferences.
SJTU
is making great efforts to approach the world first-rate standard
of institutions of higher learning at the beginning in the 21st
century.
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