The university is included in the Construction Project of High-Level Universities in Shanghai (cultivation institutions) and is selected as Pudong New Area Postdoctoral Innovative Practice Base. SSPU now offers 13 master’s degree programs, 47 bachelor’s degree programs and some high quality higher vocational programs covering 8 fields of disciplines including Economics, Law, Education, Literature, Science, Engineering, Management, and Arts. Engineering discipline is ranked ESI global top 1%. Environmental Science and Engineering (Resource Recycling Science and Engineering) is listed in Shanghai Type II Plateau Discipline Construction Project. During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, SSPU builds two plateau disciplines—Mechanical Engineering (Intelligent Manufacturing Engineering) and Materials Science and Engineering (Energy Conservation and New Energy Materials), and two emerging cross disciplines—Artificial Intelligence, Energy and Environmental Protection. The university lays ground work for developing future disciplines including Energy System Engineering, Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, and Integrated Circuit Engineering to serve the future innovation industries. SSPU has 3 National Distinctive Programs and 3 National First-Class Undergraduate Programs. And the programs of SSPU are selected into over 30 projects such as Excellent Engineer Education Training Program of Ministry of Education, Comprehensive Reform Pilot Program of Undergraduate Programs in Local Universities under the “Undergraduate Teaching Project” of Ministry of Education, Applied Undergraduate Pilot Programs for Local Universities, First-Class Undergraduate Programs in Shanghai, Shanghai Undergraduate Education Highland Construction Project, etc. SSPU also undertakes over 60 national and Shanghai Municipal projects, including Emerging Engineering Research and Practice Projects, Industry-University Cooperation Education Projectsofthe Ministry of Education, Shanghai New Humanities and Social Sciences Research and Reform Practice Projects, Shanghai Cultural Creativity & Industry-Education Integration Leading Projects, and Key Undergraduate Teaching Reform Projects in Shanghai Universities. There are more than 200 national and Shanghai Municipal courses, including National First-Class Undergraduate Courses, National Excellent Courses, Shanghai First-Class Undergraduate Courses, Shanghai Key Courses, Shanghai Excellent Courses, etc. In the past three years, the faculty have won 2 second prizes of National Teaching Achievement Award, 1 special award, 3 first prizes and 8 second prizes of Shanghai Teaching Achievement Award；and the students have participated in more than 400 discipline and skill competitions of various kinds at the provincial and ministerial level and above, and won more than 1940 awards in total including over 740 national awards.