Shanghai University (SHU) is a municipal public university in Shanghai, China.
It is owned by the Shanghai Municipal People's Government.
The university is part of Project 211 and the Double First-Class Construction.
[2] The university has two undergraduate colleges and five broad academic divisions (Natural Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences, Engineering, Economics and Management, and Fine Arts), which contain 29 schools or departments.
[3] In 1983, the Shanghai Municipal People's Government established Shanghai University on the basis of the following six independent entities: the Independent Branch School Affiliated with Fudan University, the Independent Branch School Affiliated with Shanghai International Studies University, the Instrument and Electronics Independent Branch School Affiliated with East China Normal University, the Independent Branch School Affiliated with the Shanghai University of Science and Technology, the Light Industry Independent Branch School Affiliated with the Shanghai Institute of Mechanical Engineering, and the Shanghai Fine Arts School.