The university is included in the Construction Project of High-Level Universities in Shanghai (cultivation institutions) and is selected as Pudong New Area Postdoctoral Innovative Practice Base. SSPU now offers 8 master’s degree programs, 47 bachelor’s degree programs and some high quality higher vocational programs covering 24 program categories in 7 fields of disciplines including Engineering, Management, Economics, Literature, Science, Arts and Education. Environmental Science and Engineering (Resource Recycling Science and Engineering) is listed in Shanghai Type II Plateau Discipline Construction Project. During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, SSPU plans to build two plateau disciplines—Mechanical Engineering (Intelligent Manufacturing Engineering) and Materials Science and Engineering (Energy Conservation and New Energy Materials), and two emerging cross disciplines—Artificial Intelligence, Energy and Environmental Protection. SSPU has 3 National Distinctive Programs and 3 National First-Class Undergraduate Programs. And the programs of SSPU are selected into over 30 projects such as Excellent Engineer Education Training Program of Ministry of Education, Comprehensive Reform Pilot Program of Undergraduate Programs in Local Universities under the “Undergraduate Teaching Project” of Ministry of Education, Applied Undergraduate Pilot Programs for Local Universities, First-Class Undergraduate Programs in Shanghai, Shanghai Undergraduate Education Highland Construction Project, etc. SSPU also undertakes over 60 national and Shanghai Municipal projects, includingEmergingEngineering Research and Practice Projects, Industry-University Cooperation Education Projectsofthe Ministry of Education, Shanghai New Humanities and Social Sciences Research and Reform Practice Projects, Shanghai Cultural Creativity & Industry-Education Integration Leading Projects, and Key Undergraduate Teaching Reform Projects in Shanghai Universities. There are more than 180 National First-Class Undergraduate Courses, NationalExcellent Courses,Shanghai First-Class Undergraduate Courses, Shanghai Key Courses, Shanghai Excellent Courses, etc. In the past three years, the faculty have won 2 second prizes of National Teaching Achievement Award, 1 special award, 3 first prizes and 8 second prizes of Shanghai Teaching Achievement Award；and the students have participated in more than 200 discipline and skill competitions of various kinds at the provincial and ministerial level and above, and won more than 900 awards in total including over 300 national awards.