Our University is an applied technology university which focuses on undergraduate education. As of 31 December 2023, our University offers 39 undergraduate programs and 10 junior college programs in a wide range of areas including economics, management, literature, art, science and pedagogy. Our University has 1 major with national characteristics, 1 MOE comprehensive pilot reform undergraduate major, 15 first-class undergraduate majors in Shanghai, as well as 3 majors with Shanghai characteristics. Our University has a team of stable and professional teachers. As of 30 September 2023, 83.7% of our full-time teachers are with a master’s or higher degree, 24.7% of our full-time teachers are with a doctoral degree, 35.5% of our full-time teachers are with a senior title and 35.9% of our full-time teachers are with “double-position”.

Our University has schooling quality ranked in the forefront of peer universities, which has accumulated a solid brand reputation. In April 2023, CUAA.net (中國校友會網) announced the 2023 CUAA University Rankings, which showed that our University ranked third among the 2023 CUAA category I private universities in China for the second time in a row. Over 23 years of operation, our University was awarded “Shanghai Civilized Company (上海市文明單位)” from 2005 to 2020, awarded “Shanghai Garden Unit (上海市花園單位)” from 2015 to 2020 and won the title of “National Model Unit of Civilization (全國文明單位)”(only three private universities have won this title currently) from 2015 to 2021, 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. In February 2022, our University was selected as Shanghai Safe and Civilized Campus for 2019–2020 school year, which was the ninth-selection for eighteen consecutive years since its promotion as an undergraduate level college in 2005. In the same month, our University has also been approved by the Ministry of Education as an innovation and development centre for ideological and political work in colleges and universities, and is one of the four private universities that have been approved nationwide. In March 2022, our University was elected as a cultivation and creation unit of “National Party Building Demonstration Universities”, one of the three private colleges and universities selected nationwide.