The university also annually produces the Academic Ranking of World Universities.
Contents [hide]
1 History
2 Academics, enrollment, and staff
2.1 Reputation and rankings
2.2 Academic Ranking of World Universities
3 Organization
3.1 Academic schools
3.2 Directly affiliated departments
3.3 Graduate school
3.4 Affiliated institutes
3.5 Affiliated hospitals
3.6 Student organizations
3.6.1 SJTU Dancing Team
4 Campuses
4.1 Xuhui Campus
4.2 Minhang Campus
4.3 South Chongqing Road Campus
4.4 Qibao Campus
4.5 Shangzhong Road Campus
4.6 Fahuazhen Road Campus
5 Notable alumni
5.1 Government and politics
5.2 Natural sciences and mathematics
5.3 Information science, system science and electrical engineering
5.4 Engineering and technological sciences
5.5 Life sciences and medicine
5.6 Humanities and social sciences
5.7 Business
5.8 Sports
5.9 Alumni associations
6 See also
7 References
8 External links
History[edit]
In 1896, the Nanyang Public School (南洋公學) was founded in Shanghai by an imperial edict issued by the Guangxu Emperor, under the Business and Telegraphs Office of the imperial government. Four schools were established: a normal school, a school of foreign studies, a middle school, and a high school. Sheng Xuanhuai, the mandarin responsible for proposing the idea to the Guangxu Emperor, became the first president and is regarded as the founder of the university, with the assistance of John Calvin Ferguson, a missionary educator.
Nanyang Public School
In 1904, the Ministry of Commerce took over the school, and in 1905 changed its name to Imperial Polytechnic College of the Commerce Ministry.
In 1906, the college was placed under the Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs, and its name was changed to Shanghai Industrial College of the Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs.
When the Republic of China was founded, the college was placed under the Ministry of Communications and its name was once again changed, this time to Government Institute of Technology of the Communications Ministry.
In 1918, the republic government founded the School of Management. In 1920, the Government Institute of Technology of the Communications Ministry merged with two other colleges and changed its name to Nan Yang College of Chiao Tung.
In the 1930s, it was achieved renown for nurturing top engineers and scientists and was referred to as the "Eastern MIT"[5].
In 1938, the Ministry of Education took over the university and renamed it to National Chiao Tung University (Chinese: 國立交通大學) (the separate institution of National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan, is still known by this name). In 1943, the graduate school was founded.
When the Japanese surrendered in 1945, neither the Communist Party of China (CPC) nor the Kuomintang KMT trusted each other or were actively cooperating. After American-sponsored attempts to negotiate a coalition government failed in 1946, the Chinese Civil War resumed. The CPC defeated the Nationalists in 1949, forcing Chiang's government to retreat to Taiwan. During the evacuation, a part of faculty and alumni was taken to Taiwan by Chiang Kai-shek, founding National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan in 1958.
After the Chinese Civil War, the People's Republic of China was founded in 1949. Chiao Tung lost its "National" appellation and became Chiao Tung University to reflect the fact that all universities under the new socialist state would be public.
In the 1950s, the pinyin romanization system was developed in Mainland China and Chiao Tung University changed its English name to Jiao Tong University.
From 1952, the Communist government adopted a policy of creating Soviet-style specialized schools, reshuffling nearly all universities and colleges to follow the Soviet-style higher education model. Under this policy, some faculties of the university were shifter to other universities, and some engineering faculties from outside were absorbed into Jiao Tong University to form a specialized engineering university.
A major change to the university came in 1956 when the central government ordered the university move to Xi'an in China's western Shaanxi province. The majority of the university's faculty was transplanted to Xi'an Jiaotong University, with other departments, most notably ship-building, remaining under the new name Shanghai Jiao Tong University, SJTU.
Shanghai Second Medical University was merged into Shanghai Jiao Tong University on July 18, 2005, under the name Medical School of Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Since the reform and opening up policy in China, SJTU has grown substantially. It is composed of five campuses, including Xuhui, Minhang, Luwan, Qibao, and Fahua (法华), taking up an area of about 3,225,833 square meters.
In 2013, François Hollande inaugurated the SJTU-ParisTech Elite Institute of Technology (SPEIT), an institution based on the French engineering education system. The four founding member universities are École Polytechnique, ENSTA ParisTech, Mines ParisTech and Télécom ParisTech
Academics, enrollment, and staff[edit]
School of Mechanical Engineering, Minhang Campus
Today SJTU has 31 schools (departments), 63 undergraduate programs, 250 masters-degree programs, 203 Ph.D. programs, 28 post-doctorate programs, and 11 state key laboratories and national engineering research centers.
Its total enrollment of students amounts to 42,881, of which 1,598 are international students. There are 17,766 undergraduates, and 24,017 masters and Ph.D. candidates.
The university has more than 1,900 professors and associate professors, including 15 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 20 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 92 accredited professors and chair professors of the "Cheung Kong Scholars Program".
Reputation and rankings[edit]
University rankings
Global
ARWU 101-150
Times 276-300
QS 104
Asia
ARWU[11] 6-15
Times 40
QS (Global version)
QS (Regional version)
Internationally, SJTU is ranked among 101-150th globally by ARWU (2014). The institution came sixth in the QS BRICS University Rankings and was 27th in the counterpart conducted by Times Higher Education.
Academic Ranking of World Universities[edit]
Since 2003, Shanghai Jiao Tong University has produced the Academic Ranking of World Universities which analyzes the top universities in the world on quality of faculty (40%), research output (40%), quality of education (10%) and performance vs. size (10%). Its ranking is exclusively of research universities, mainly in the empirical sciences.
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