In 1998, the school was transferred from the former Ministry of Machinery Industry to the management of the Municipality of Shanghai.

The University of Shanghai for Science and Technology was originally built by the Northern and Southern Baptists of the United States on 26.5 acres of land purchased in late 1905.

Proctor was president and professor of history and philosophy at the college until the fall of 1910 when he was replaced by Dr. F. J.

With demand for engineering education in today's social and economic development, the university actively cultivate the construction of new cross-disciplinary subjects, for instance the university has further enhanced and developed areas such as the advanced manufacturing and high-end equipment and technology, biomedical engineering, manufacturing and new optoelectronic devices and electrical test control technology, micro-nano frontier materials, energy saving and environmental protection technology.

The academics in USST have published 4 papers in "Nature" journals, and gained more than 400 authorized patents.

The total number of its full-time teaching staff is 1098, of which 415 have senior technical and professional titles.

The main campus of USST is located in the Northeast of Downtown Shanghai next to Huangpu River.

The university is adjacent to the Fuxing Island and Gongqing Forest Park, surrounded by green trees and red shining walls.

The University Campus was first built between 1900s to 1940s and is now listed as "Heritage Architecture" by Shanghai Municipal Government.

10 buildings on campus were included in cultural relics protection list by Yangpu District Government.

[26][27] USST has established inter-university relationships with over 110 universities in more than 20 countries, including Australia, Germany, America, Canada, Japan, Switzerland, Russia and Hong Kong, China.

It is the only Shanghai-based higher education institution to be awarded a licence by the Chinese Ministry of Education to offer full degree programmes with multiple overseas universities (the so-called "1 to N Model"), either taught entirely at the Shanghai campus, or with a period of study abroad.

This international cooperation has been listed as one of Shanghai-Hamburg Sister Cities cultural exchange programs.

Students graduated from Shanghai-Hamburg College are expected to become internationalized and application-oriented professionals who not only understand German engineering and technology, but are also capable of dealing with cross-cultural communications.

With regard to the internship semester, 10% of the outstanding students will be sent to companies in Germany such as Airbus, Lufthansa Technik, Siemens, Philips and so on.

Other students will also have the internship opportunities in the German domestic or joint ventures enterprises.