The Lifelong Education College, supported by the academic strength of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, strives to develop an integrative, innovative and international multi-subject life-long education system that serves the country's key strategies and engages with the emerging industries.

Serving the society is our responsibility. Our brand new mission is to foster the outstanding talents the country needs in the fields of international scientific research, the economic key zone, the critical national demands and the general public's health care.

Lifelong learning is our belief. The future social development is beyond prediction, but lifelong learning can be nurtured to be everybody's habit, from whom the inter-disciplinary talents will stand out to be the leading force of industry upgrade and future development.

Innovative development is our mission. The country's innovation-driven development strategy is essentially talent-driven, so the innovative talents fostered by us are bound for scientific innovation, industrial innovation and social innovation.

Innovation is the soul of human civilization. Serving the country's innovation-driven development strategy, the college will stride on towards the goal of becoming a world-class ifelong education college with SJTU characteristics, opening arms to the future, the emerging industries and the international cooperation.


Dean, School of Lifelong Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University: