Recently, ShanghaiRanking Consultancy, a specialised agency of higher education evaluation, officially released the 2021 ShanghaiRanking’s Ranking of Academic Subjects in China. With an overall score of 34.1, the Transport Program of our School ranked 27th among the 79 universities on the list, in the top 40% of B+ level, making us the only listed university under administration of the Shanghai Municipal Evaluation Commission in this range.
The ShanghaiRanking’s Ranking of Academic Subjects in China covers more than 500 undergraduate programs in 92 categories, and evaluates nearly 30,000 programs, making it the largest ranking of undergraduate programs in China. The ranking adopts a unique school-subject-program competitiveness evaluation system that features five indicator categories and 19 indicators, including general resources, discipline support, student sources, graduate employment and program resources. It is an ongoing evaluation of 60,000 undergraduate programs in more than 1,200 universities.
Oriented towards the modern rail transportation industry, our program is closely aligned with the industry chain, innovation chain and technology chain, so as to create a fully credit-bearing training system with multi-disciplinary integration, highlight the needs of rail transportation network operation and management, and form a collaborative talent training model. In 2005, the SUES and Shanghai Shentong Metro Group jointly established the School of Urban Railway Transportation, the first university-enterprise cooperation for undergraduate programs in China. In the same year, the Transport Program was set up. In 2010, the Program opened for national enrolment, serving the talent demand in the Yangtze River Delta and across the country. In 2011, it was approved as a pilot program of the Ministry of Education's Excellence in Engineer Training Program, a key project of Shanghai's off-campus internship base and a construction project of exemplary off-campus internship base for Shanghai universities. 2019 saw the program pass the Ministry of Education's Engineering Education Accreditation, and it was also approved as a construction site for first-class undergraduate programs in Shanghai.
Taking into account the needs of intelligence operations of rail transit network, and in accordance with the engineer training standards for international engineering education certification, a “3+1” school-company collaborative training model is established to cultivating “multi-functional and inter-disciplinary” professionals with high industry competitiveness, innovative capabilities and international visions. The employment rate of graduates from the Program is 100%, and thousands of technical and management talents have been trained for dozens of metro enterprises across China, and a considerable number of them have become technical backbones or management elites of the enterprises.