Our University is an applied technology university which focuses on undergraduate education. As of 30 June 2024, our University offered 40 undergraduate majors and 10 junior college majors in a wide range of areas including economics, management, literature, 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 2024, CUAA.net (中國校友會網) announced the 2024 CUAA University Rankings, which showed that our University continued to rank third among the CUAA category I private universities in China for three consecutive years. Over 24 years of operation, our University has been consecutively awarded “Shanghai Civilized Unit (上海市文明單位)” for 9 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 passed the reexamination twice in 2017 and 2020, continuing to retain the honorary title of the “National Model Unit of Civilization (全國文明單位)”, and certified by Shanghai Audit Centre of Quality System to have implemented the ISO9001 quality management system in 2018, and passed the re-certification in May 2021, and passed the MOE undergraduate teaching quality assessment (教育部本科教學工作審核評估) in November 2019. In February 2022, our University has also been approved by the MOE as an innovation and development centre for ideological and political work in colleges and universities, in the same month, our University was selected as Shanghai Safe and Civilized Campus for 2019–2020 school year, and was once again selected as Shanghai Safe and Civilized Campus for 2021–2022 school year in March 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)” in April 2024.