Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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Shanghai Jiao Tong University, (SJTU, 上海交通大學), abbreviated Jiao Da (交大), is one of the leading universities in China. The university is jointly run by the Ministry of Education and Shanghai Government. It is one of oldest national universities in China.
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History
In 1896, Nanyang Public School was founded by Sheng Xuanhuai in Xujiahui, Shanghai, which belonged to the Business and Telegraphs Office of the Chinese government. There were four schools: a normal school, a school of foreign languages, a middle school and a high school. Sheng Xuanhuai was also the first president of the school.
In 1904, the Ministry of Commerce took over the school, and changed its name to Imperial Polytechnic College of the Commerce Ministry the next year. In 1906, the college was taken over again by the Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs, and changed its name to Shanghai Industrial College of the Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs. When the Republic of China was founded, the college was run by the Ministry of Communications, and changed its name once again to Government Institute of Technology of the Communications Ministry. In 1918, the School of Management was founded in this institute, and it became one of the oldest academic institutes founded by the Chinese government.
In 1920, the institute was combined with some other colleges and change its name to Nan Yang College of Chiao Tung. In 1928, the name was changed to First Chiao Tung University of the Communications Ministry. In the 1930s, it was know as the "Eastern MIT". In 1938, the Ministry of Education took over the university and it was renamed National Chiao Tung University (the separate institution of National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan, is still known by name). In 1943, the graduate school was founded.
With the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949, the main part of the university were transferred to other places and the remaining part changed its name to Shanghai Jiaotong University.
Present
Shanghai Jiao Tong is usually regarded as one of the two best universities in Shanghai, the other is Fudan University, and one of the top ten universities in China.
Organization
The university is organized into 21 academic schools:
- Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
- Mechanical & Power Engineering
- Electronics & Electric Engineering
- Material Science and Engineering
- Sciences, Life Science and Technology
- Humanities and Social Science
- Civil Engineering and Mechanics
- Chemistry and Chemical Technology
- Management
- International and Public Affairs
- Foreign Languages
- Agriculture and Biology
- Environmental Science and Engineering
- Pharmaceutics
- Medicine
- Law
- Media & Design
- Micro-electronics
- Information Security and Software
Famous Alumni
- Lu Dingyi (陸定一)
- Ding Guangen (丁關根)
- Wu Wenjun (吳文俊)
- Zou Taofen (鄒韜奮)
- Mao Yisheng (茅以升)
- Huang Yanpei (黃炎培)
- Shao Lizi (邵力子)
- Cai Er (蔡鍔) - famous general, founder of the Republican Protection Army against Yuan Shikai
- Qian Xuesen (錢學森) - missile and space program scientist
- Wang Daohan (汪道涵)
- Wen Tsing Chow (周文俊)- missile guidance scientist and digital computer pioneer
- An Wang (王安) - computer scientist and inventor, founder of Wang Laboratories
- Jiang Zemin (江澤民) - former President of the People's Republic of China
Of all the academics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Academy of Engineering, more than 200 are the alumni of Shanghai Jiaotong University.
