- - City characters: openness, innovation, inclusiveness
- - The most international city in China
- - The best commercial city in China by Forbes
- - Ranked 3rd in the 2020 edition of the Global Financial Centers Index
- - Ranked as Alpha + city in 2020 by Globalization and World Cities Research Network


- - In the name of the city
- - A member university of the Project 211
- - Co-sponsored by the Ministry of education and Shanghai Municipality
- - Research-oriented with 9 world top 1% disciplines by ESI: Physics, Chemistry, Materials Science, Environmental Ecology, Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science, Biology & Biochemistry,Sociology。
- - Diverse disciplines of Arts, Humanities, Social Science, Business, Management, Engineering and Science.