Editing Shanghai Normal University (section)

==Disciplines and majors==
The university offers 88 undergraduate majors related to 11 subjects, covering Philosophy, Economics, Law, Education, Literature, History, Science, Engineering, Management Science,  Agriculture and Art. In addition, the major of Chinese Language and Literature was authorized by the [[Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China|Ministry of Education]] for talent cultivation and academic research; and the major of Literature of Ancient China serves as one of the four key bases in the country.

In 2005, Shanghai Municipal Education Commission launched the Undergraduate Educational Highland project, and five SHNU majors — MICE Economy, Teacher Education, Chinese Language and Literature, Film and TV Communication and English — were selected as key programs of this project. In 2015, 9 major subjects were ranked by QS subject-rankings. Based on the [[Academic Ranking of World Universities]] (ARWU), SHNU was ranked among the top 100 universities in the world for Mathematics in 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shanghairanking.com/SubjectMathematics2015.html |title=Academic Ranking of World Universities in Mathematics - 2015 &#124; 2015 Top 200 Universities in Mathematics &#124; ARWU-SUBJECT 2015 |publisher=Shanghairanking.com |access-date=2019-09-08}}</ref> Chemistry, Mathematics, Material Science, and Engineering Discipline entered Essential Science Indicators (ESI) Top 1%.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://english.shnu.edu.cn/3c/13/c21801a670739/page.htm |title=SHNU Engineering Discipline Enters ESI |publisher=English.shnu.edu.cn |date=2018-10-08 |access-date=2019-09-08}}</ref> According to an analytical report on CSSCI publishing among Chinese universities by China's [[Ministry of Education]], SHNU ranks 28th for the total number of [[Chinese Social Sciences Citation Index]](CSSCI) papers published in 2018. In Shanghai, SHNU ranks 4th for the same item, only behind [[East China Normal University]], [[Fudan University]], and [[Shanghai Jiaotong University]]. In 2018, 476 papers were published by SHNU authors: 26 papers from China Social Sciences, Literature Review and History Review, etc. Besides, 42 papers were published in SSCI and A&HCI.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://english.shnu.edu.cn/bf/87/c18489a704391/page.htm |title=SHNU Ranks 28th in China for Total Number of CSSCI Papers in 2018 |publisher=English.shnu.edu.cn |date=2019-08-15 |access-date=2019-09-08}}</ref> Currently, the university has one national key major subject and 11 municipal key major subjects.

SHNU has 6 primary disciplines and 46 secondary disciplines for doctoral degree programs, 9 mobile post-doctoral research centers, and 203 Master's degree programs. After many years of solid work, the university has set up many subjects with their specific advantages and features. There are influential disciplines in the academic circle such as Chinese Language and Literature, History, Philosophy, Psychology, Pedagogy, Computational Mathematics and Astrophysics; and disciplines that have attracted wide attention in the society such as Art, Advertisement, Tourism Management, MICE Economy, Rare Earth Materials, and Plant Functional Gene. The Urban Culture Research Center is the only key research base of Humanities in municipal universities approved by the Ministry of Education. There are municipal key laboratories in the field of galaxies and cosmology, three E-research institutes of urban culture, computational science and comparative linguistics, and a large number of major subjects in the process of further development at the municipal level or under the supervision of Shanghai Education Commission.