Career
Career opportunities in Shanghai
Being a constantly flourishing national economic centre, Shanghai is a stable environment where, as a graduate international student, you can get employed. The city has a fame throughout history as a large financial centre and it keeps its prestige.
Among the national major institutions there is the Shanghai Stock Exchange, a worldwide notorious company. Foreign investors such as Volkswagen and General Motors built offices in Shanghai. The city is also home to the largest free-trade zone in mainland China, an attraction to foreign investors. So, if you are looking for a place where you can put your academic knowledge into practice, there are plenty of opportunities in Shanghai.
Life
Shanghai city life
Shanghai has an active and agitated city life, that helps you experience the old and the new, the traditional and the modern, in one place. As spectacular as it is, Shanghai earned is fame as the place where you can live “the American Dream à la Chinoise”, as a reporter described it.
Having over 150 parks, Shanghai has a culture of outdoor entertainment, that is also generous in city landscapes. Jessfield Park, Shanghai Botanical Garden and Xujiahui are some of the parks that often impress visitors. The city also has a low air pollution level in comparison to other locations in China and walking around and admiring the 20-century, Soviet, Stalinist and other styles of architecture, along with modern and eccentric structures, is most of the time a pleasure.
Shanghai is known for its influence upon the cyberpunk culture, visible on buildings such as the Oriental Pearl Tower or the Yanán Elevated Road. Some of the most famous local museums are Shanghai Museum, the China Art Museum, the Power Station of Art or the National History Museum.
Nightlife of Shanghai is visible in clubs, concert halls, thematic bars and other locals.
International atmosphere in Shanghai
Shanghai is a multicultural and multilingual city, with a large amount of registered foreigners from Japanese, S.U.A. or Korea. Being a popular tourist destination and international trade centre, the city has a constant flow of visitors.
Locals are accustomed with the flow of international visitors and students and are eager to talk to them about Asian traditions and to show them a bit of the local customs, while learning more about Western ideas.
Weather Shanghai
Shanghai’s climate focuses on for seasons, with chilly and windy winters, hot summers with thunderstorms and typhoons and comfortable springs or autumns. Average temperatures are of 1.2°C (39.6°F) in January and 27.9°C (82.2°F) in July.
Universities in Shanghai
Established in 1952, ECUPL is one of New China’s first political law universities, renamed in 2007 and known as the “Oriental Pearl of Legal Education”. As a high level local university in Shanghai, it has three campuses and over 18,000 students, with law as its core discipline alongside economics, management, literature and engineering. It offers a full bachelor master doctor education system and serves as a national base for outstanding legal and foreign related rule of law talent cultivation.
Shanghai Maritime University (SMU) is a multi-disciplinary university that encompasses such areas as engineering, management, economics, law, liberal arts, and science, with special emphasis on shipping, logistics and ocean.
As China’s only business school to originate from government-level collaboration, CEIBS is committed to educating responsible leaders versed in ‘China Depth, Global Breadth’ in line with its motto of ‘Conscientiousness, Innovation and Excellence’.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), as one of the higher education institutions which enjoy a long history and a world-renowned reputation in China, is a key university directly under the administration of the Ministry of Education (MOE) of the People's Republic of China and co-constructed by MOE and Shanghai Municipal Government.