ShanghaiTech University

ShanghaiTech University is a research establishment comprising four schools and two research institutes. The structure of our four schools emphasizes the cross-disciplinary and innovative nature of our research, approach to education and community service. We intend to leverage our location in the City of Shanghai, with the support of the Shanghai Municipal Government and the extraordinary resources of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). ShanghaiTech is committed to serving the national development strategy. ShanghaiTech seeks innovative solutions to address the challenges that China is facing in the field of energy, material, environment, human health, thus to improve productivity driven by innovation, and contribute to the restructuring and development of China. ShanghaiTech is building up a strong faculty of 1000 professors including 500 tenure-track/tenured professors from global recruitment and 500 distinguished professors-in-residence from CAS institutes and other prestigious universities or institutes. Among the current faculty (nearly 373 by the middle of September 2015) are 3 Nobel laureates, 3 National Academy of Sciences (USA) members, 1 Royal Society (UK) fellow, 23 CAS members, 3 Chinese Academy of Engineering members and 3 IEEE fellows. Our inaugural undergraduate class of 2014 has 207 members drawn from the nation’s top high schools and our third cohort of graduate students (386) entered this fall. We have campuses in downtown Shanghai and Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park (the Silicon Valley of China). ShanghaiTech is completing a state-of-the-art research infrastructure and has formed a network of research alliances with nearby facilities such as the CAS Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility and the National Center for Protein Science Shanghai.