The admission policies, scholarship application and other information for the 2021 fall intake of international graduate programs are expected to be announced in Oct. 2020.

Please note that all applicants who would like to pursue a master/doctoral degree at SJTU are required to submit their applications at the website Study@SJTU (http://isc.sjtu.edu.cn/EN/Default.aspx) before the application deadlines. Otherwise your application will not be processed and will be seen as invalid.

For scholarship application, the deadline is Dec 15, 2020(Beijing Time, GMT+8, 1st round) and Mar 31, 2021(Beijing Time, GMT+8, 2nd round).

For self-supported application, the deadline is May 31, 2021(Beijing Time, GMT+8).

Currently we do not accept transferring students for our international graduate programs. Hope you a bright future. Thanks!

Sorry but please note that SJTU does not have a spring intake, and the 2021 fall intake starts in October 2020.

Generally, applicants with a bachelor’s degree can apply for any Master programs, and applicants with a Master’s degree can apply for any Doctoral programs. However, whether you can be admitted or not depends strongly on your competence against all the applicants for that program.

NORMALLY students can apply without an acceptance letter from a professor in UM-SJTU Joint Institute.

UM-SJTU Joint Institute is located in Minhang campus.

Below are the materials you need to prepare for the online application.

1. Degree certificates: Must be the scanned copy of your original certificates. Students who have not graduated by the time of application are required to provide an official letter from the current university specifying the expected graduation date. The degree certificate should be ready before the registration day.
2. Transcripts: Must be the scanned copy of your original transcripts. Master’s program applicants are required to submit undergraduate transcripts. Doctoral program applicants are required to submit both undergraduate and graduate transcripts.
3. Language proficiency certificate and score report.

Language Requirements for SJTU International Graduate Programs: http://isc.sjtu.edu.cn/EN/content.aspx?info_lb=38&flag=2

4. Scanned copy of the information page of your passport.
5. Passport-size photo.
6. Personal statement and study plan.
7. Two letters of academic recommendation from scholars who are associate professors or above, or senior professionals in a related academic field. Please follow the instructions on the online system for submission of online recommendation letters or upload the recommendation letters with original signatures.

Notes:

• If your documents are not in English or Chinese language, you are required to have them translated into either English or Chinese by an authorized translation agency. After this please upload both the translated and original documents onto our application system.

For the Personal Statement or Study Plan, it should be in English or Chinese language and beyond that, we don’t have any specific requirement concerning its length or structure.

The applicants are required to upload their last degree certificate i.e., Bachelor’s degree certificate for Master program applicants, and Master’s degree certificate for Ph.D applicants. Students who have not graduated by the time of application are required to provide an official letter from the current university specifying the expected graduation date.

One can apply for the program of this year so long as the degree certificate will be ready before the registration time (September of each year).

Language Requirements for SJTU International Graduate Programs:

http://isc.sjtu.edu.cn/EN/content.aspx?info_lb=38&flag=2

Language proficiency certificate is essential for the application of Degree program, please upload the results of your English/Chinese proficiency tests before submission or else your application would not pass the preliminary review.

 Language Requirements for SJTU International Graduate Programs, please check:

http://isc.sjtu.edu.cn/EN/content.aspx?info_lb=38&flag=2

Please note that a pre-admission letter will not be available until your application has been approved by the school/department and the graduate school.

Please note that pre-admission letter is not necessary for the CSC scholarship application. If you do need a pre-admission letter to apply for any special scholarships, please submit your application on our website Study@SJTU (http://isc.sjtu.edu.cn/EN/Default.aspx) and inform us of your application ID through email to gs.admission@sjtu.edu.cn. After passing the preliminary review, SJTU will forward your application to us, and we will arrange an interview or test for you. Upon approval and recommendation, SJTU will provide a pre-admission letter which can be downloaded from our website.

Please note that a pre-admission letter will not be available until your application has been approved by the school/department and the graduate school.

If you have got any scholarship funded by other organizations, please submit your application for SJTU graduate program as a self-supported student. Please upload your scholarship award letter in the system for our reference and inform us of your application ID through email to gs.admission@sjtu.edu.cn. After passing the preliminary review, we will forward your application to the school/department, which will arrange an interview or test for you. Upon their approval and recommendation, we will provide a pre-admission letter which can be downloaded from our website.

No, the admission application would only be processed online, and applicants DO NOT need to mail the paper application materials to our office.

The tuition for the international graduate programs of UM-SJTU Joint Institute is 28,900 RMB/Year for Master’s programs and 45,500 RMB/Year for Doctoral programs.