Shanghai International Studies University (SISU) was founded in 1949, originally known as Shanghai College of Russian. In 1963, SISU became a national key institution of higher learning upon approval by the State Council of the People’s Republic of China. In 1994, approved by the State

Education Commission (SEC), the University adopted its present name and was selected as one of the first universities in Shanghai to be jointly funded and administered by SEC and Shanghai Municipal Government. In 1996, SISU was granted to be a “Project 211” university by SEC, which, as a national educational priority for the 21st century, was the State’s endeavor to help China’s top 100 institutions of higher learning and

key disciplines to excel. The mission of SISU is to cultivate high-level foreign language professionals with multi-disciplinary knowledge and international expertise.

  Currently, SISU has an enrollment of 6,557 undergraduate students and 3-year associate degree students, 1,400 postgraduate students, and over 1,000 international students. Part-time students registered with SISU total 25,000. The University has a full-time faculty of more than 500.

SISU comprises 20 academic colleges, schools and departments. They are: Colleges of English, Japanese Culture & Economy, and Oriental Languages, Departments of Russian, FRA, German, and Western Languages, Colleges of International Finance & Trade, International Business Administration, Journalism and Communication, International Education, International Cultural Exchange, School of Law, Advanced School

of Translation, Graduate School, Colleges of Online Education, Vocational Education, Continuing Education, Xin Zhong College and Xian Da College of Economics and Liberal Arts. In addition, the University has four service departments, namely: Department of Physical Education, Department of Social Sciences, Preparatory School for Personnel Going Abroad and Department of Intensive Training for Personnel Going Abroad.