Officially approved to open on September 30th 2013 by China’s Ministry of Education, ShanghaiTech University is a small-scale research university of academic excellence jointly established by Shanghai Municipal Government and Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). MISSION ShanghaiTech is committed to serving the national development strategy. The University seeks innovative solutions to address the challenges that China is facing in the field of energy, material, environment, human health, thus to improve productivity driven by innovation, and contribute to the restructuring and development of China. CAMPUS The campus covers approximately 0.6 square kilometer. The total floor area of the approved projects is over 700,000 square meters. Based on the concept of “faculty and student oriented” and “interaction and integration”, the design of the campus won the 2012 American Institute of Architects, California Council (AIACC) Awards for Urban Design. The infrastructure projects have been completed and is gradually being put into use. SCHOOLS ShanghaiTech focuses on science and engineering. The university consists of five schools and three research institutes: School of Physical Science and Technology (SPST), School of Information Science and Technology (SIST), School of Life Science and Technology (SLST), School of Entrepreneurship and Management (SEM), School of Creative Arts, Shanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies (SIAIS), iHuman Institute and Institute of Mathematical Sciences. FACULTY ShanghaiTech is building up a strong faculty of 1000 professors, including 500 tenure-track/tenured professors recruited from around the world and 500 distinguished professors-in-residence from CAS institutes and other prestigious universities or institutes. Among our current faculty (444 by September 2017) are three Nobel laureates, six National Academy of Sciences (USA) members, two Royal Society (UK) fellow, twenty-seven CAS members and three Chinese Academy of Engineering members.