Perhaps education of Shanghai is the most advanced in China and the educational quality is also top-level around China. Most of Chinese educational reforms often implemented in Shanghai. For instance, the national college entrance examination condemned severely by the public for its destruction to students’ creativity and imagination. The first college entrance enrollment without participation in the national standardized entrance exams was initially practiced and experimented in Fudan University. Its influence will be widely extensive and probably change many youngsters’ destinies.

The hardware and software of Shanghai’s education are best compared with other cities except Beijing. The best conditions naturally require the best teachers and researchers who are able to be qualified to stay here. Generally speaking, the common graduates are unqualified to enter Shanghai rather than those students with bachelor degree whose majors are strongly needed in Shanghai. Only the postgraduates and doctors can move their registered permanent residences into Shanghai. The assignation is also totally different from others. The teachers are able to teach the infancy should own the bachelor degree or master degree, and the teachers are able to teach the students of middle school, generally should have the master or doctor degrees.

The overall educational system keeps the high-quality of people’s education in different steps of their schooling period. The higher-education universities are as follows: Shanghai Jiao Tong University founded in 1896, Fudan University founded in 1905, Tongji University founded in 1907, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics founded in 1917, Shanghai University founded in 1922, East China Normal University founded in 1951, China Academy of Art founded in 1928, Shanghai Conservatory of Music founded in 1927, Shanghai Theater Academy, East China University of Science and Technology and so on. Historically speaking, due to the special history of Shanghai, its education mostly was originated from western colonial education and missionary education. Many universities or colleges to some extent grew up from those western schools.

Fudan University is one of the most outstanding higher-education institutions, the beautiful campus characterized of the western architecture and Chinese traditional layout of gardens. The excellent speeches you will enjoy by many noted learners or authorized professors who study Chinese traditional culture, history, art, customs, literature and politics all their lives. Moreover, numerous foreign students learning in this university are also the witness to show its greatness. You will be unquestionably impressed deeply by the best spiritual enjoyment and campus sightseeing.