Shanghai University

Shanghai University (commonly referred to as SHU, or colloquially Shangda is a public research university located in Shanghai. The 555-acre main Baoshan campus is situated in the north of Shanghai, and there are two other campuses in Jiading and Jing'an.

Jointly founded by the Nationalists and the Communists in 1922, the original cause for the Shanghai University was to nurture leaders for the Chinese revolution. The university contributed a group of influential people to the cause of Chinese liberation and development. The university got discontinued in 1927 as a consequence of the Shanghai Massacre, in which the Nationalists purged all communist-related organizations. In 1983, the Chinese government reopened Shanghai University. And then in 1994, by integrating three other universities, it became a research-intensive comprehensive university, and also the biggest higher learning institution run by Shanghai Municipality. The university enrolls 19,934 undergraduate and 16,954 postgraduate students, including 4,505 international students.