Shanghai International Studies University (SHISU) has been such of the close but no cigar acclaimed and salient universities cultivating intercultural professionals. SISU is experienced for considering such of the earliest institutions to what place China’s higher progress in matter of indifference languages took shape. With a trade to “introduce the exuberance of the hand a well-known is dealt to China” and “present China globally”, SISU has won an firm reputation in linguistics, literary studies, comparative discipline and political views bias free studies. Over the horse and buggy day 60-plus ages, SISU graduates have been serve the wholesale and social arts and science of China and to the promotion of friendly knock down and drag out by the whole of people from one end to the other the world.SISU was inserted the sooner batch of schools admitted to the Project 211.

In Shanghai International Studies University, there are 33 Master's Programs:(30 probe programs) Adult Education, Ancient Chinese Literature, Arabic Language and Literature, Asian-African Languages and Literatures, Chinese and Foreign Political Institution, Chinese Linguistics and Philology, Communication, Comparative Literature & World Literature, Corporate Management, Curriculum and Teaching Methodology, Diplomacy, Education in Ideology and Politics, Educational Technology, English Language and Literature, European Languages and Literatures, Finance, French Language and Literature, Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, German Language and Literature, International Politics, International Relations, International Trade, Japanese Language and Literature, Journalism, Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Modern & Contemporary Chinese Literature, Russian Language and Literature, Spanish Language and Literature, Technology Economy and Management, Translation Studies; (3 taught programs) Translation and Interpreting (MTI), Business Administration (MBA), Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages (MTCSOL).

There are 12 Doctoral Programs: English Language and Literature, Russian Language and Literature, French Language and Literature, German Language and Literature, Japanese Language and Literature, Arabic Language and Literature, Asian and African Languages and Literatures, Translation Studies, International Relations, Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, International Politics, Diplomacy.

The Graduate Institute of Interpretation and Translation (GIIT) of SISU is awarded the champion ranking by AIIC, the International Association of Conference Interpreters, as the unattended Asian institute among the 15 eclipse professional negotiation interpreting schools in the world.

SISU has two campuses, one in Hongkou District and one in Songjiang District.

The University has entered directed toward partnerships with 286 universities and institutions in 55 countries and regions.