Shanghai Maritime University University) is a multi-disciplinary university with shipping, logistics and ocean as its characteristic disciplines, with engineering, management, economics, law, literature, science and art as its disciplines. It is a University jointly built by Shanghai Municipal People's government and the Ministry of transport. It is one of the first universities to obtain the certificate of seafarer education and training quality system of the people's Republic of China and the ISO9001 quality assurance certificate issued by DNV The universities with certificates have been selected into the "excellent engineer education and training program" of the Ministry of education, the receiving universities of Chinese government scholarship for international students in China, and the first batch of demonstration universities in Shanghai to deepen the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education.The school was formerly founded in July 1909 as the shipping department of Shanghai higher Industry School of the Ministry of post and Telecommunications of the late Qing Dynasty, which created a precedent for China's higher maritime education. After the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications higher merchant shipping school, Wusong merchant shipping school, Ministry of communications Wusong Merchant Shipping College, Chongqing Merchant Shipping College, national Wusong Merchant Shipping College, Shanghai Shipping College and other periods. In 1959, the Ministry of communications established Shanghai Maritime College, and in 2004, it was renamed Shanghai Maritime University with the approval of the Ministry of education. In 2008, the main body of Shanghai Maritime University moved to Lingang New City. The school was originally a university directly under the Ministry of transportation, and was under the management of Shanghai in 2000.As of October 2019, the University covers an area of more than 1.33 million square meters, with a total construction area of 600000 square meters and a water area of 80000 square meters. It has three post doctoral research stations, one national key (cultivation) discipline, four first-class discipline doctoral programs, 16 first-class discipline master programs, 12 master's degree authorization categories, 48 undergraduate programs, and more than 1200 full-time teachers There are more than 16500 students, nearly 6000 graduate students and 700 international students.