The school was founded in 1954, and became an undergraduate college in 1956. 198 1 was identified as the first batch of master's degree awarding units by the State Council Academic Degrees Committee, 1986 was approved as a doctoral degree awarding unit, and it was selected as an excellent one by the Ministry of Education in 20 17.

Shanghai Normal University is a key construction university in Shanghai. It is a comprehensive university with coordinated development of arts, sciences and crafts. It is good at liberal arts and has the characteristics of normal education.

The school's existing disciplines are philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, management, agriculture, art and so on 1 1.

At present, there are 19 colleges, with more than 20,000 full-time undergraduates, more than 8,000 graduate students, more than international students 1 100, and more than 6,000 adult undergraduate and junior college students. The school now has 89 undergraduate majors; There are 9 first-class doctoral degree authorization points, 33 first-class master degree authorization points and 9 postdoctoral mobile stations.

As of 202 1 and 65438+February, the school has two campuses, Xuhui and Fengxian, covering an area of about 1.35 million square meters, with a building area of more than 720,000 square meters and a library collection of more than 3.3 million books. There are more than 20,000 full-time undergraduates, more than 8,900 graduate students and more than 0/000 international students.