📖 About the university

Shanghai Normal University Tianhua College is a private undergraduate university in the Jiading district of Shanghai, established in April 2005 with Ministry of Education approval. It is run jointly by Shanghai Normal University and the Shanghai Tianhua education and culture investment company. The college is an applied-technology institution built around education, engineering and health disciplines, with the liberal arts, sciences, economics and management as complementary wings. It offers around twenty-five undergraduate majors organised into schools of preschool education, language and culture, business, electronic and electrical engineering, art and design, and health. Its best-developed fields are preschool education, rehabilitation therapy, mechanical and electronic engineering and applied foreign languages. Occupying a compact, well-equipped campus in one of Shanghai's northern suburbs, it emphasises small-class, application-oriented teaching for the education and healthcare needs of the Yangtze River Delta.

🎯 Fields of study

🏛️ Colleges & schools

🌆 About Shanghai

Shanghai is China's largest city and its foremost financial and commercial center, a truly global metropolis on the East China Sea coast. With a metropolitan population of around 25 million, it blends colonial-era waterfront architecture with some of the tallest skyscrapers in the world. The climate is humid subtropical, bringing hot, humid summers and cool, damp winters. Its iconic sights include the riverside Bund, the Oriental Pearl Tower and Shanghai Tower in Pudong, the classical Yu Garden, and the bustling Nanjing Road. Local cuisine is known for xiaolongbao soup dumplings, pan-fried shengjianbao, and sweet red-braised pork. Shanghai runs one of the world's largest metro systems, two international airports, and high-speed rail to the entire country. For an international student, Shanghai offers world-class universities, a huge international community, and endless opportunity, balanced against a fast pace and the highest living costs in China.

💰 Fees & costs

💡 General estimates for international students in China; they vary by major and university, and the official figure is always on the university website.

🛂 Visa requirements by nationality

These are the general steps for the China student visa (X1/X2); details vary by the Chinese embassy in your country.