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Shanghai University of International Business and Economics (formerly Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade) was established in 1960. It is a university directly under the former Ministry of Foreign Trade (Economic) Cooperation. It became a bachelor's degree-granting unit in 1982. It began training master students in 1984 and became a master's degree authorized in 1986. The unit was placed under the management of the Shanghai Municipal People's Government in 1994. In 2006, it passed the evaluation of the undergraduate teaching level of the Ministry of Education with an "excellent" level. In 2019, it obtained the qualification of the WTO Asia-Pacific Training Center and became the only regional training partner established in Mainland China among the WTO's seven global training partners; it was selected as one of the top 50 universities with typical experience in innovation and entrepreneurship in the country. In 2020, it was selected as one of the first batch of colleges and universities in the "High-level International Talent Training and Innovative Practice Base" of the Ministry of Education, and the Ministry of Education "National Ordinary Colleges and Universities Chinese Excellent Traditional Culture Inheritance Base", and was awarded the "Shanghai Demonstration School of Administering Schools by Law". In the ranking of universities of finance and economics in 2020, the school ranks 10th in the national finance and economics universities.
The school adheres to the school motto of "integrity, tolerance, erudition, and pragmatism", and adheres to the school-running philosophy of "student-oriented and academic-oriented". There are three campuses in Songjiang, Gubei and Qibao, covering an area of 1,003 acres, a building area of 323,700 square meters, and a paper collection of 1.56 million volumes.
The school has more than 1,100 faculty members, including more than 800 full-time teachers, more than 70 high-level talents at the national, provincial and ministerial levels, and 17 doctoral supervisors; more than 400 teachers with senior professional titles, and doctoral teachers account for more than 60% of the total number of full-time teachers; There are more than 12,000 students, including nearly 9,000 full-time undergraduates, nearly 3,000 postgraduates, and more than 300 foreign students.
The school has the School of International Economics and Trade, the School of International Business and Foreign Languages, the School of Financial Management, the School of Law, the School of Business Administration, the School of Accounting, the School of Exhibition and Tourism, the School of Statistics and Information, the School of Trade Negotiations, the School of International Cultural Exchange, the School of Continuing Education, and the School of Marx 13 colleges (teaching department) including the School of Socialism and the Department of Physical Education. The school and the People's Government of Songjiang District in Shanghai jointly organized a nine-year compulsory education school-Songjiang Experimental School affiliated to Shanghai University of International Business and Economics.
The school has formed an open economic discipline group with applied economics as the leader, international trade, international governance, international cooperation, international finance, and international investment as its characteristics, reasonable layout and coordinated development of economics, management, law, and science. Existing applied economics and business management , Law, Foreign Languages and Literatures, Theoretical Economics, Statistics and Marxist Theory, 7 first-level master's programs, 36 second-level master's programs and 10 professional degree-granting fields. Among them, applied economics and business management ranked in the top 20%, and theoretical economics, law, and statistics ranked in the top 30% (software). There are 2 Shanghai first-class graduate education leading program projects, 3 Shanghai professional degree graduate demonstration practice bases, and 13 Shanghai professional degree graduate practice bases.
The school has 33 undergraduate majors, 10 national-level first-class undergraduate majors, 4 national-level first-rate undergraduate courses, 19 national-level undergraduate teaching quality and teaching reform projects (including 1 national-level teaching team, national-level experimental teaching 1 Demonstration Center, 1 National Virtual Simulation Experimental Teaching Center), 1 Shanghai First-Class Undergraduate Construction Leading Project, 1 Shanghai University Course Ideological and Political Key Reform Pilot Institute, 2 Shanghai Applied Undergraduate Pilot Majors .
The school adheres to the fundamental task of cultivating people with morality, implements the reform of the training model for excellent talents, strengthens the two-wheel drive of professional education and general education, and promotes the training of excellent foreign-related legal talents experimental class, excellent journalism talent training experimental class, economic innovation experimental class, and trade statistics The establishment of innovative experimental classes and other experimental classes, the establishment of entrepreneurship colleges to strengthen the education function of innovation and entrepreneurship education, focus on cultivating "four links" talents with common language, common rules, common tools and common management characteristics, and continue to expand new areas of compound top-notch talent training , Strengthen the training of high-level international talents.
The school is known as "the cradle of China's foreign economic and trade talents". Since its establishment, the school has trained more than 80,000 graduates, and has sent a large number of elite talents and business backbones to my country's political, business and academic circles. The school was selected as the "Shanghai University Graduates Employment and Entrepreneurship Demonstration Base" and the Shanghai University A-level Entrepreneurship Guidance Station, and won the national "Three Rural" outstanding units. The talent training of the school has the characteristics of "three highs and one strong", that is, high admission scores, high employment quality, high employment salary, and strong foreign language application ability. In the 2020 China University Graduate Salary Index Ranking, the school ranks 20th among universities in the country and 1st among Shanghai-affiliated universities.
The school has 2 Shanghai high school peak plateau disciplines, 2 Shanghai key disciplines, 5 key disciplines of the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, 10 provincial and ministerial key research bases, 3 Shanghai colleges and universities think tanks, countries and regions filed by the Ministry of Education 5 research centers. The school focuses on the major strategic needs of the country and Shanghai, and strives to improve the level of scientific research service and strategic carrying capacity. It cooperates with the General Administration of Customs and the People's Government of Songjiang District to build the "Global Trade Analysis and Monitoring Center" and the Yangtze River Delta G60 Science and Technology Corridor Global Trade Monitoring and Analysis The center and other new-type university think tanks with Chinese characteristics have established special research institutions such as the International Economic and Trade Research Institute, the World Trade Organization Chair (China) Research Institute, the Artificial Intelligence and Change Management Research Institute, and the International Development Cooperation Research Institute. In the past five years, he has undertaken 119 national-level projects, including 10 major key projects such as the National Social Science Fund, the National Self-Research Fund and the Ministry of Education; 290 provincial and ministerial-level projects, including 19 provincial and ministerial-level key projects. The ability to publish high-level academic papers in authoritative journals at home and abroad and other core journals has been continuously improved, and has won 15 scientific research achievement awards at or above the provincial and ministerial level. The two think tanks were selected into the CTTI Top 100 University Think Tanks (National "A District University Think Tanks") and the Chinese member units of the "Belt and Road" International Cooperation Think Tank Committee.
The school is unique in its research on a new type of university think tank with Chinese characteristics built as a powerful country in service and trade. The school adheres to a global perspective and serves China’s development. It has drafted the Hong Kong Basic Law, "Return to Customs" and "WTO" negotiations, Pudong development and opening up, negotiations under the WTO framework, and trade policy review. And dispute settlement, as well as in APEC negotiations, China-Australia and China-South Korea FTA negotiations, RCEP negotiations, Sino-US economic and trade negotiations, foreign development assistance, economic and trade cooperation in Central and Eastern Europe, Northeast Asia peace process, Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone, "China International Import Expo" And the "five centers", the four major functions and the construction of the G60 Science and Technology Corridor, making positive contributions to the construction of a powerful country in service trade. The school's decision-making consulting research level has been among the forefront of Shanghai universities and the first among municipal universities for many years.
The school's cooperation network to serve the country's overall diplomacy and global governance continues to expand. The school is the host institution for Chinese government scholarship students and Shanghai government scholarship students. It has concluded cooperation and exchange agreements with more than 100 countries, international organizations and overseas partners to jointly develop talent training, scientific research and social services. The school serves the "Belt and Road" initiative, and has opened 3 Confucius Institutes and 1 independent Confucius Classroom in key areas of the "Belt and Road". The Confucius Institute established in cooperation with the University of Ljubljana has won the title of "Global Advanced Confucius Institute". In-depth cooperation with international organizations such as WTO, APEC, United Nations Conference on Trade Development, United Nations Economic and Social Council for Asia-Pacific, International Trade and Sustainable Development Center (Geneva) and other international organizations, and was awarded the China WTO Affairs Center of Excellence, providing support for serving my country's participation in international economic governance .
The school was born as a powerful country in trade, prospered as a result of opening to the outside world, prospered as a result of comprehensive reform, and renewed as a cause of opening up in the new era. Facing the future, the school adheres to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, thoroughly implements the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th Plenary Sessions of the 19th Central Committee, based on the new development stage, and implements the new development. Philosophy, service, build a new development pattern, closely serve the construction of a powerful country in service trade, and accelerate the construction of Shanghai into a socialist modern international metropolis with world influence, and strive to build a comprehensive strength that ranks among the forefront of similar domestic colleges and universities, and some fields are internationally renowned high-level and internationalized , Applied research university with distinctive characteristics.