ShanghaiTech University

ShanghaiTech University
上海科技大学
Type Public
Established 2013
President Jiang Mianheng
Academic staff
 75 Tenure Track Professors, 289 Adjunct Professors
Undergraduates 504
Postgraduates 1107
Location Shanghai, China
31°10′46″N 121°35′26″E / 31.17944°N 121.59056°E / 31.17944; 121.59056 (ShanghaiTech University)Coordinates: 31°10′46″N 121°35′26″E / 31.17944°N 121.59056°E / 31.17944; 121.59056 (ShanghaiTech University)
Campus

Zhangjiang Campus： 100 Haike Road, Pudong District, Shanghai, 201210

Downtown Campus： 319 Yueyang Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai 200031
Language English and Chinese
Newspaper News
Website www.shanghaitech.edu.cn

ShanghaiTech University (ShanghaiTech; Chinese: 上海科技大学) is a new research university in Shanghai, China with main campus in Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park and a downtown campus in Xuhui District.

The establishment of ShanghaiTech is a joint effort of The People's Government of Shanghai Municipality and The Chinese Academy of Sciences Shanghai Branch.

ShanghaiTech is in cooperation with several overseas research universities such as University of California, Berkeley, University of Chicago, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Drexel University, University of Padua and USC School of Cinematic Arts.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Timeline

Schools and Institutes

The university has four schools in operation and one school in its planning stage:

ShanghaiTech has two research institutes on its campus:

Campuses

Zhangjiang Campus

The Zhangjiang campus is the main campus of the university and is estimated to be finished by 2016. It is located in the Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park amongst many national and international R&D-based companies. The university is in very close proximity to the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, the Shanghai Advanced Research Institute and the National Center for Protein Science Shanghai. The campus was designed by Moore Ruble Yudell Architects and won the Merit Award for Urban Design Award 2012 of the American Institute of Architects, California Council.[7] With 0.6 square kilometer and a construction area of 701,500 square meters the campus represents investments of the Shanghai Municipal Government of 4.169 billion CNY.[8][9]

Undergraduate teaching started in Fall 2014 at the Zhangjiang Campus and all graduate courses are taught there as well since the fall semester of 2015.

Panoramic image along the main axis of ShanghaiTech University (November 2015).
ShanghaiTech Campus. Six dormitories for graduate students, the sports hall (center) and the library (white building to the right) (November 2015).
Ongoing construction around the center of ShanghaiTech University (November 2015).

Downtown Campus

The temporary downtown campus is located in Xuhui District, Shanghai.

Downtown Campus of ShanghaiTech

Academics

The low student-to-faculty ratio of at most 12 to 1 is hoped to ensure a very high teaching quality.[10]

In the future ShanghaiTech aims to host 1000 faculty, including 500 adjunct professors from institutes of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and other universities. The university will then educate 2000 undergraduate and 4000 graduate students (including 3,000 Ph.D. candidates).[11]

ShanghaiTech hosts three nobel laureates. Dr. Roger D. Kornberg, 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and James E. Rothman, 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, are Distinguished Professors-in-Residence at the Shanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies (SIAIS). Kurt Wüthrich, 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, is a Distinguished Professor-in-Residence at the iHuman Institute.

Undergraduate Program

The four year undergraduate program at ShanghaiTech University has 3 semesters (fall, spring and summer) per school year. The summer semester is mainly for course projects, with music and painting courses available.

The university puts lots of emphasis on liberal education and creativity cultivation, and develops several original courses, like Introduction to Information Science and Technology, General Introduction to Chinese Civilization and General Introduction to World Civilization.

The School of Entrepreneurship And Management provides students in all majors with required courses like Economics and Design Thinking.

Graduate Program

As of 2015 the graduate degrees are provided in collaboration with the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Once the newly designed graduate courses are accredited by the Chinese Ministry of Education ShanghaiTech will grant its own degrees.

See also

References

  1. ↑ From each side:
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  4. ↑ Drexel University Partnership with Shanghai Tech Retrieved November 19, 2015
  5. ↑ University of Padova Rector Visits ShanghaiTech Retrieved November 19, 2015
  6. ↑ It’s really all in the wording Retrieved November 19, 2015
  7. ↑ Research, Technology and Profound Harmony Come Together Retrieved November 19, 2015.
  8. ↑ Planning & Urban Design ShanghaiTech University Retrieved November 19, 2015
  9. ↑ ShanghaiTech Campus Plan Retrieved November 19, 2015
  10. ↑ ShanghaiTech Aims To Raise The Bar For Higher Education In China Retrieved November 19, 2015
  11. ↑ ShanghaiTech at a glance Retrieved November 19, 2015.
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