Education in Shanghai

As of 2023, Shanghai had 68 universities and colleges, ranking first in East China region as a city with most higher education institutions.

In 2013 the Shanghai Municipality and the Chinese Academy of Sciences founded the ShanghaiTech University in the Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park in Pudong.

This new research university is aiming to be a first-class institution on a national and international level.

It is the largest one outside the capital of Beijing after the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS).

Shanghai students, including migrant children, scored highest in every aspect (math, reading and science) in the world.

The study concludes that public-funded schools in Shanghai have the highest educational quality in the world.

[27][28] Critics of PISA results counter that, in Shanghai and other Chinese cities, most children of migrant workers can only attend city schools up to the ninth grade, and must return to their parents' hometowns for high school due to hukou restrictions, thus skewing the composition of the city's high school students in favor of wealthier local families.

[35] In September 2021 the Shanghai authorities will begin requiring children in primary and secondary to study Xi Jinping thought.

Additionally, from that date primary schools will no longer have final examinations about the English language.