Shanghai Normal University is a key construction university in Shanghai and a pilot unit for the construction of high-level local universities (disciplines) in Shanghai. It has been selected into the national "111 plan", the national public postgraduate project for the construction of high-level universities, the national "characteristic key discipline project" construction university, the key research base of Humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of education, the implementation institution of the excellent teacher training plan of the Ministry of education, and the "National Key Discipline Project" It is also a member of the Shanghai Hong Kong University Alliance and China University Innovation and entrepreneurship education Federation It is a comprehensive university with the characteristics of Arts, science, engineering and arts.The school was founded in 1954 as Shanghai Normal College. In 1956, it was expanded into Shanghai First Normal College and Shanghai Second Normal College. In 1958, the two colleges merged to form Shanghai Normal College. In 1972, the five universities merged to form Shanghai Normal University. In 1978, Shanghai Normal University was restored. In 1981, it became one of the first batch of master's degree awarding units in China. In 1984, it was renamed Shanghai Normal University. In 1986, it was approved as a doctoral degree awarding unit. In 1994, it merged with Shanghai Normal University of technology to establish a new Shanghai Normal University. From 1997 to 2003, Shanghai Normal College, Huangling health care department of Nanlin normal school, Shanghai Xingzhi art normal school, Shanghai teacher training center, Shanghai Tourism College, etc. were merged into or under the management of the college.As of December 2019, the university has two campuses, Xuhui and Fengxian, covering an area of more than 1.53 million square meters, a building area of more than 650000 square meters, and a library collection of 3.1794 million books; there are more than 20000 full-time undergraduate students, more than 8000 graduate students, and more than 2700 international students.