EBS/IBS Program (in English)

If Shanghai is like New York, then isn’t Shanghai University the New York University of China? Although not as influential as NYU, Shanghai University is still one of China’s best 100 universities. In addition to Mandarin study programs, it is one of the few schools in China that provide 100% English-language MBA programs and attracts over 2000 international students annually.

Shanghai University was founded in May 1994, by consolidating four former institutions of higher learning: Shanghai University of Technology, Shanghai University of Science & Technology, Shanghai Institute of Science & Technology and the former Shanghai University. Until now, SHU has offered English-taught MBA and MIT courses for Master’s degree for international students, which is ranked top one in China. Besides, Chinese Languge couse available there is within easy access. You can pass HSK easily if you study Chinese language in SHU.SHU attracts over 2000 international students annually.

Class Beginning: March and September 1. Business Course (4 credits) Specially designed to the American and European students by four professors. The course is about the transformation of China's economy into a market economy with its special characteristics. It deals with the process of transformation and the special features of the Chinese economy. The main purpose of the course is better for the overseas student understanding Chinese economy profile, and getting a brief idea for doing business in China. Textbook: China's Economic Transformation" by Gregory C. Chow second edition printed in 2006 by Blackwell Publishing Outline for the Course (30 - 40 hours) 1. Brief Introduction of China 2. Economic Reform in China 3. Chinese Consumption and Development (Marketing) 4. Chinese Banking System 5. Chinese Financial System 6. Foreign Trade in China (1) 7. Foreign Trade in China (2) 8. Foreign Investment in China 9. The Legal System and the Role of Government 10. Education System in China Final Exam: 1. Examination (together with) 2. Essay 2. Beginning Chinese Level (10 credits) This course is designed for students who have not studied Chinese. It acquaints students with basic phonetics, minimum vocabulary for everyday conversation, and elementary knowledge of Chinese grammar. The students also practice Chinese character writing. The course stresses listening and speaking practice while providing an overall grounding in elementary Chinese including reading and writing. It aims at laying a preliminary foundation for the learner to make further studies of Chinese language. 3. E-commerce (4 credits) Through the study, students can understand the principles, development process an characteristics of E-commerce, and the new competition brought by E-commerce. The 21st century will be an era of e-commerce development. How to face e-commerce manners and learn adapting demand of numerical information economy, participating in the international competition of the e-commerce era are the requirements of this course. Its concrete contents include: the development of e-commerce, the social environment and technology environment of e-commerce, the move manners of e-commerce, e-commerce marketing, the applications, the law system, the standards, the practice and the examples of e-commerce. 4. Chinese Culture Course (4 credits) Provides the European students useful information about Chinese history, geography, and folk customs, therefore they can have some ideas about how these things impact the present Chinese culture and politics, as well as economics. If they are going to dealing business in China, they can better adjust their behaviors based on an overall knowledge of Chinese culture from a holistic point of view. Outline about the course Part A Seven lectures (21 hours) 1. Introduction and Shanghai Culture 2. Confucius' Influence on the Chinese Culture 3. Traditional Chinese Skills 4. Lucky Things in China 5. Chinese Food Culture 6. Traditional Chinese Medicine 7. Business Culture Part B Ten lectures (40 hours) 1. General Introduction 2. Shanghai Culture 3. Confucius' Influence on the Chinese Culture 4. Traditional Chinese Skills 5. Lucky Things in China 6. Chinese Food Culture 7. Traditional Chinese Medicine 8. Business Culture 9. Three Ancient Chinese Capitals - Xi'an, Beijing and Nanjing 10. Women's Position & Women's Movement Textbook: Reference books would be recommended by the professor for the different students' needs, since each topic would be supplied by many books in Shanghai Foreign Book Store Final Exam: Usually students would be asked to hand in essays on certain topics according to the professor's advice 5. Digital Communications This course provides the interface between hardware techniques for transmitting information over networks, and the coding that is required on top of data in order to make digital communication both possible and reliable. An in-depth look at modern coding techniques provides an exciting and essential base around which robust and successful communications systems can be designed. 6. Introduction to Fiber-Optic Communication Systems Description: Components and system design for optical fiber communication. Textbook: William B. Jones, Introduction to Optical Fiber Communication Systems Course Content Fibers: Step-index, graded-index fibers; Fiber modes, single-mode fibers, multimode fibers; Dispersion, mode coupling, and loss mechanics; Glass materials, fiber fabrication, and characterization techniques. Sources and Transmitters: Light-emission processes in semiconductors; Light-emitting diodes (LEDs); Semiconductor lasers, (laser diodes: LDs); Modulation response; Source-fiber coupling; Detectors and Receivers: Photo detectors, receivers; Receiver noise and sensitivity; Optical Amplifiers; Erbium doped fiber amplifiers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Raman amplification Systems; Platforms for WDM components: Discrete optics: thin-film filters, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), isolators, circulators; All-fiber components: couplers, Mach-Zehnder interferometers; Planar lightwave circuits (PLC): arrayed-waveguide gratings (AWG), couplers, MZs, etc; wavelength selective devices; Optical Router; Dispersion compensation; System design: Single-Wavelength Fiber-Optic Networks (P2P); Wavelength -Division Multiplexing (WDM); Lecture 1 Introduction to Fiber-Optic Communication Systems Lecture 2 Basics of Waves; Fibers from the view of Geometrical Optics Lecture 3 Waveguide/Fiber Modes; Attenuation in Optical Fibers (optical loss); Fiber Dispersion; Nonlinear Processes in Optical Fibers Lecture 4 Semiconductor Sources for Optical Communications Lecture 5 Optical Amplifiers - the Basics Fiber Amplifiers Lecture 6 Photodetectors and Receiver Lecture 7 Components for WDM Networks Lecture 8 Active WDM Components and Networks Lecture 9 Basic Optical Networks & Point to Point Link Design Lecture 10 System Considerations 7. Web Design (4 credits) Let the students understand the basic language of HTML, be capable of designing simple web pages by using Frontpage, and understand the programming method of dynamic ASP web pages. The content will be: The common usage of HTML tag, the architecture of HTML web pages; The usage of Frontpage; The grammar of VBscript, variable, data type and statements; Introducing ASP system object and programming method of dynamic web page. 8. Course Description: Chinese business law (4 credits) General This course addresses both institutional and substantive aspects of the Chinese Business Law. It will cover the underlying political and economic philosophy of market economy and introduce the major legal disciplines in the business field. It will also deal with some of the controversies concerning the future evolution of the Chinese Business Law, in particular, the issue of the social and political implications of free trade and the impact of free trade on national sovereignty. Content This course has an emphasis on the regulatory framework in China, but also tries mightily to take a truly international perspective. The course covers the Company Law, Foreign-invested Enterprises Law, Securities Law, Negotiable Instruments Law, Insurance Law, Maritime Law, Intellectual Property Law, China and the World Trade Organization. Method The course is taught by means of a three-hour seminar class. Class attendance and discussion is important and will count in the grade. The purpose of classes is not to cover all aspects of the assigned topics and readings. Rather, classroom discussion will focus on certain crucial points and give students the opportunity to raise questions or comments and debate matters of particular interest to them. Exam The final grade is based on (1) 30% class participation; (2) 70% final essay which will let the students either make a comparative study between the Chinese Business Law and the one at home, or offer comments and suggestions on the Chinese system. Textbook Zhu Yikun, China's Commercial Law, Beijing: Law Press, 2003. 9. Chinese Law (4 credits) Course length: 40 hours 1. Introduction of China: the judiciary system, the system of the People's Congress, the structure of the State. 2. Constitution 3. Administrative law 4. General principles of Civil Law 5. Family law 6. Employment & social Security Law 7. Criminal law 8. Review: The brieff history and its culture source of Chinese law

Shanghai University Libraries is composed of three libraries. The main library is on the new Baoshan campus, Wenhui library is located on Yanchang campus, and Lianhe library resides on Jiading campus. The University library, with a total floor space of 55,000 square meters, has 25 reading rooms and 3,000 seats. The main library occupies approximately 38,000 square meters.

The libraries contain more than 3 million volumes, more than 4,600 periodicals, and many electronic resources including Elsevier, Ebsco, Kluwer, and Academic Press. The library materials are comprehensive and cover diversified areas. In cooperation with Shanghai Writer’s Association, the main library has a collection room for Shanghai writer’s works.

The library includes the departments of acquisition, cataloging, periodicals, circulation, information reference, technical service, reading, and special collection. The administrative offices include the Director’s Office and Office of General Affairs. The director of library is Professor Yuanda Dong, a famous material scientist.



As a member of IFLA (International Federation of library Associations), Shanghai University libraries have established contacts and academic exchanges with many other universities, institutes, and libraries, both domestic and abroad.

Shanghai University Libraries have paid great attention to the development of an unique, automatic, modern, and digital library. There are more than 300 computers that provide all kinds of services. The library website provides all the electronic resources including accessing and connecting to China Academic Library & Information System, and the Shanghai Education Network Library. Through the campus network system, users can access the electronic databases of Shanghai University Libraries. The campus network of the university is built upon an infrastructure of the gigabit Ethernet and the three campuses are interconnected by the fiber optic backbone. The libraries adopt SUN Enterprise 5500 as the main server and HORIZON library automation system for library and information management.

The libraries has established an interlibrary loan and resource-sharing system with most of the universities in Shanghai.



 

Yanchang Campus

The international students' dormitory consists of four apartment buildings linked together, named Building Xinyuan, which started using in the year of 2002.With 193 rooms (only 4 double rooms)in which there are 198 beds, the building can accommodate 198 students.

Staff members are particularly assigned to take the responsibility of the security and service 24 hours a day. Boiled water is available in wash rooms of each floor. All the rooms are well furnished and equipped and look neat and beautiful.

There is a laundry room each floor with pre-paid washing machines and a mini-shop selling foods and articles for the daily life for the convenience of international students.

The types of rooms are as follows: (Price is subject to change due to the inflation each year and Y-C rooms are limited for couples only)

Type	Equipments	Charges  (RMB per person per day)
		Long-term	Short-term
Y-A	Single room with TV, air-conditioner,  telephone, shower, toilet, furniture	70	85
D-A	Double room (3 double rooms & 1 single room in a suite),  with TV, air-conditioner, telephone, furniture,  shared shower, toilet	35	45
D-B	Single room (3 double rooms & 1 single room in a suite)  with TV, air-conditioner, telephone, furniture,  shared shower, toilet	60	80

               

  

Baoshan Campus

The international students' dormitory consists of four apartment buildings linked together, named Building V and Building Z & W, which started using in the year of 2001, 2006 & 2008. With 186 rooms & 280 rooms in which there are 259 beds & 360 beds, the building can accommodate 245 & 360 students.

Staff members are particularly assigned to take the responsibility of the security and service 24 hours a day. Boiled water is available. All the rooms are well furnished and equipped and look neat and beautiful. Each building has its own elevator except Z & W building. Life turns out to be convenient.

There is a laundry room with pre-paid washing machines in each building and a mini-shop only in V building selling foods and articles for the daily life for the convenience of international students.

The types of rooms are as follows (V building): (Price is subject to change due to the inflation each year)

 

Type	Equipments	Charges (RMB per person per day)
		Long-term	Short-term
X-A	Single person in double room with TV,air-conditioner,telephone,  shower, toilet, furniture & shared refrigerator	60	75
X-B	Double room with TV, air-conditioner,telephone,shower, toilet,  furniture	35	45
X-C	3 single-room in one suite with air-conditioner and furniture;a living room with telephone, TV and shower and toilet and refrigerator  shared by three students.	45	60

The types of rooms are as follows (Z & W building): (Price is subject to change due to the inflation each year)

Type	Equipments	Charges (RMB per person per day)
		Long-term	Short-term
Z-A	Double room with TV, air-conditioner, telephone, shower, toilet, furniture & shared refrigerator	35	45
Z-B	Double room with air-conditioner, telephone, toilet, furniture  & shared refrigerator and shower	25	30
W-A	Double room with air-conditioner,telephone, shower, toilet,  furniture & shared refrigerator	35	45
W-B	Single room with air-conditioner, telephone, shower, toilet,  furniture & shared refrigerator	70	90

 

3 Steps to Apply to a Chinese University

1. TOFEL 550/New TOFEL 7.5 or IELTS 6.0
2. Aged 18 - 40

1.  Photocopy of valid passport
With photo, passport number &expiration date and name included.

2.  Passport-sized photo
A passport-sized photo taken recently of the applicant.