Our University is an application-oriented university which focuses on undergraduate education. As of 30 June 2026, our University offered 42 undergraduate majors and 10 junior college majors covering seven disciplines including economics, management, literature, engineering, art, science and pedagogy. Our University has 1 major with national characteristics, 1 Ministry of Education (MOE) comprehensive pilot reform undergraduate major, 15 first-class undergraduate majors in Shanghai, as well as 3 majors with Shanghai characteristics.

        The schooling quality of our University ranked in the forefront of peer universities, which has accumulated a solid brand reputation. In January 2026, CUAA.net (中國校友會網) announced the 2026 CUAA University Rankings, which showed that our University continued to rank third among the CUAA category I private universities in China for five consecutive years. Over 26 years of operation, our University has been consecutively awarded “Shanghai Civilized Unit (上海市文明單位)” for nine times over 18 years since 2004, won the honorary title of “Shanghai Garden Unit (上海市花園單位)”from 2015 to 2020 and awarded the “National Model Unit of Civilization (全國文明單位)”for the first time in 2015 (the first private university in Shanghai), and successfully passed the re-examination three times in 2017, 2020 and 2025, retaining the honorary title of the “National Model Unit of Civilization (全國文明單位)”. Our University passed the ISO9001 quality management system certified by Shanghai Audit Centre of Quality System in 2018, and successfully renewed it in 2021 and 2024, and also passed the MOE undergraduate teaching quality assessment (教育部本科教學工作審核評估) twice in November 2019 and April 2025. In February 2022, our University has been approved by the MOE as an “Innovation and Development Centre for Ideological and Political Work in Higher Education Institutions (教育部高校思想政治工作創新發展中心)”, and in the same month, our University was selected as“Shanghai Safe and Civilized Campus for 2019-2020 school year (2019-2020學年度上海市安全文明校園)”, and was once again selected as “Shanghai Safe and Civilized Campus for 2021-2022 School Year (2021-2022學年上海市安全文明校園)” in March 2024. In April 2024, our University was among the first batch of universities in the PRC to be granted reputable title of “Lei Feng Spirit College Demonstration Education Base (雷鋒精神高校示範教育基地)”, and in September of the same year, our University received the “Award for Outstanding Contribution to Promoting Lei Feng Spirit in the New Era (新時代傳播雷鋒精神貢獻獎)”. In February and March 2025, our University was successively recognized as an“Outstanding Unit in Information Disclosure Work among Shanghai Higher Education Institutions for 2023-2024 (2023-2024年度上海高校信息公開工作優秀單位)” and an “Outstanding Unit in Petition Work within the Shanghai Education System for 2024 (2024年度上海市教育系統信訪工作優秀單位)”.