Shanghai Maritime University is a "double-non" university with average comprehensive strength but outstanding disciplines and specialties. There are fewer excellent disciplines in the school, but the dominant majors are outstanding; The employment rate of the school is high, and the industry recognition is high. The employment rate of shipping management and law, marine traffic engineering materials and protection, ships and marine engineering, design and manufacture of ships and marine structures, port waterway and coastal engineering is high.
At present, the school has 1 national key disciplines, 1 Shanghai peak disciplines, 2 Shanghai plateau disciplines and 9 municipal key disciplines. Engineering discipline ranks among the top 1% of ESI in the world, and port and shipping logistics discipline maintains a leading position in the world.
Shanghai Maritime University is a multidisciplinary university featuring shipping, logistics and ocean. It has seven disciplines, including engineering, management, economics, law, literature, science and art. In 2008, the Shanghai Municipal People's Government and the Ministry of Transport signed an agreement to establish Shanghai Maritime University.
The school has three postdoctoral research mobile stations (transportation engineering, electrical engineering, management science and engineering), four first-class doctoral programs (transportation engineering, management science engineering, ship and ocean engineering, electrical engineering), two doctoral programs 17, one-class master degree programs 16, and 63 master degree programs in two disciplines, with 6500. It has 16 provincial and ministerial key research bases.