Shanghai Jiao Tong University
| Shanghai Jiao Tong University seal | |
| Motto | 饮水思源 |
|---|---|
| Type | Public coeducational |
| Established | 1896 |
Academic staff | 1,420 |
| Undergraduates | 15,550 |
| Postgraduates | 12,780 |
| Location | , |
| Campus | Urban |
| Colors | None |
| Mascot | Mike, a Bengal tiger |
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, (SJTU, 上海交通大學), abbreviated Jiao Da (交大),is one of the oldest and most influential universities in the People's Republic of China. The university is jointly run by the Ministry of Education and Shanghai Government.
History
In 1896, Nanyang Public School was founded by Sheng Xuanhuai in Xujiahui, Shanghai, which belonged to the Business and Telegraphs Office of the Chinese government. There were four schools: a normal school, a school of foreign languages, a middle school and a high school. Sheng Xuanhuai was also the first president of the school.
In 1904, the Ministry of Commerce took over the school, and changed its name to Imperial Polytechnic College of the Commerce Ministry the next year. In 1906, the college was taken over again by the Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs, and changed its name to Shanghai Industrial College of the Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs. When the Republic of China was founded, the college was run by the Ministry of Communications, and changed its name once again to Government Institute of Technology of the Communications Ministry. In 1918, the School of Management was founded in this institute, and it became one of the oldest academic institutes founded by the Chinese government.
In 1920, the institute was combined with some other colleges and change its name to Nan Yang College of Chiao Tung. In 1928, the name was changed to First Chiao Tung University of the Communications Ministry. In the 1930s, it was known as the "Eastern MIT". In 1938, the Ministry of Education took over the university and it was renamed National Chiao Tung University (the separate institution of National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan, is still known by name). In 1943, the graduate school was founded.
With the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949, the new Communist government adopted a policy of creating specialist universities in the Soviet style of the time. Under this policy, some faculties of the university were incorporated into other faculties. At the same time, engineering faculties from other universities were incorporated to create a specialist engineering university. The name was changed to Shanghai Jiaotong University.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Shanghai Second Medical University were merged on July 18, 2005.
Present
Shanghai Jiao Tong University is usually regarded as one of the two best universities in Shanghai, the other being Fudan University. Both are consistently ranked in the top ten universities in China in various lists.
The univiersity recently received attention due to the much-publicized Shanghai Jiao Tong University ranking project, which is an ongoing large-scale project to provide independent rankings of Universities around the world.
The main university campus is located in the Xujiahui district of Shanghai, formerly a largely Catholic area, and the site of several educational institutions, including Fudan University in its early days. The campus architecture reflects American influence. However, the main gate is in the traditional Chinese style and reflects the University's earlier status as the "Imperial Polytechnic College". The approaches to the main gate were via a series of marble bridges, similar to, although smaller than, those found in Tiananmen Square. However, recent road expansions have caused the demolition of most of the bridges.
Most of the university's undergraduate population, however, is today housed in the Minhang Campus, where the undergraduate sections of seven universities are collected together in the outskirts of shanghai.
At present, the university comprises 20 academic schools, 2 directly affiliated departments and one Graduate School. Besides, it also has School of Continuing(adult) Education, School of Online Learning, School of International Education, and a Vocational School. There are 60 undergraduate programs, 179 masters-degree programs, 6 professional master-degree programs, 22 disciplines and 143 sub-disciplines authorized to confer Ph. D. degrees, 23 post-doctorate programs, 22 State key doctorate programs and 16 State key laboratories and 4 National engineering centers.
The university have more than 1, 420 professors and associate professors, including 15 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences 20 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and 31 "Changjiang Chair Professors".
Organization
The university is organized into 20 academic schools:
- Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
- Mechanical & Power Engineering
- Electronics & Electric Engineering
- Material Science and Engineering
- Sciences
- Life Science and Technology
- Humanities and Social Science
- Civil Engineering and Mechanics
- Chemistry and Chemical Technology
- Management
- International and Public Affairs
- Foreign Languages
- Agriculture and Biology
- Environmental Science and Engineering
- Pharmaceutics
- Medical
- Law
- Media & Design
- Micro-electronics
- Information Security
- Software
Famous alumni
- Lu Dingyi (陸定一)
- Ding Guangen (丁關根)
- Wu Wenjun (吳文俊)
- Zou Taofen (鄒韜奮)
- Mao Yisheng (茅以升)
- Huang Yanpei (黃炎培)
- Shao Lizi (邵力子)
- Cai Er (蔡鍔) - famous general, founder of the Republican Protection Army against Yuan Shikai
- Qian Xuesen (錢學森) - missile and space program scientist
- Wang Daohan (汪道涵)
- Wen Tsing Chow (周文俊) - missile guidance scientist and digital computer pioneer
- An Wang (王安) - computer scientist and inventor, founder of Wang Laboratories
- Jiang Zemin (江澤民) - former President of the People's Republic of China
Of all the fellows of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Academy of Engineering, more than 200 are the alumni of Shanghai Jiaotong University.