About Us

College of Transport and Communications of SMU is one of the first colleges in China that offer education in transport engineering and provide master-level programs. The rich experience it accumulates in talent nurturing and academic research during the last five decades has made it one major base for the teaching and research of transport and communications (Shipping Management) in China.

College of Transport and Communications of SMU provides a complete discipline system and is able to foster talents of all levels from bachelor's to doctoral degrees, and possesses a postdoctoral scientific research station in the field of transportation engineering. In 2007 and 2008, the Secondary discipline Transport Planning and Management is approved successively by the Education Ministry of China and Shanghai Municipal Education Commission as the National Key Discipline and Key Discipline of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission. The First level discipline Transport Engineering was approved as a Plateau Discipline in Shanghai in 2015.

The college offers four bachelor-level programs in Transportation, Transportation Management (International Shipping Management), Logistics Management and Transport Engineering. and the college has been rated as the national first-class undergraduate major construction site. Transportation Management (International Shipping Management) and Logistics Management are awarded National level programs. The bachelor level programs of Transportation, Transportation Management (International Shipping Management) and Logistics Management have been listed as Educational Height of Shanghai Municipal. In recent years, Transportation and Transport Engineering have successively passed the National Engineering Education Accreditation. The college has been rated as the national first-class undergraduate major construction site of the four bachelor-level programs.

At present, the number of bachelor-level students studying in the college is around 2200 and the number of post-graduate students has reached 400.

College of Transport and Communications of SMU boasts a well-structured and academically sound faculty constituted of more than 80 members of teaching staff, and among them there are 14 professors (12 PHD tutors). 96.3% of the teaching staff have been awarded PHD degree or have worked for three years abroad.

College of Transport and Communications makes great efforts to scientific research and attaches great importance to the maintaining of its cooperation with maritime community. It has established several advanced laboratories such as virtual reality lab, shipping system decision-making technology and appraisal lab, modern port comprehensive lab, digital logistics lab center, terminal automation control lab, transport engineering lab and FFA lab.

The college has started its cooperation with UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) in running master level seminars as early as 1983. In recent years, it has started two joint master level programs respectively in collaboration with World Maritime University and the University of Western Australia, and started a bachelor-level joint program with Regional Maritime University in Ghana. Exchange mechanism has been established with the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, US Massachusetts Maritime Academy and Korea Inha University to enforce international academic communications.

The teachers of the college have served as the deputy editor in chief of five SCIE/SSCI source journals in the field of transportation, the editorial board of multiple journals, and the chief editor of one international SCIE source journal in the field of marine science. The number of graduate and undergraduate students studying abroad for exchange and degree programs in our college has continued to steadily increase, ranking among the top in the school for a long time.