上海大学自强学院
办学特色全面贯彻党的教育方针，深入实践钱伟长校长“培养全面发展，愿为天下兴亡，祖国强盛而自
强不息的人”和“拆除四堵墙”的办学理念，坚持把以专业为核心的教育体系转变为以培养全面发展的人为核心的教育体系为办学宗旨。贯彻以育人为本，坚持德育为先；
主要课程
特色平台学院以《科学研讨课》为平台，建立学生课余活动导师制，指导学生尽快适应大学的生活和学习，学会做事和做人。以《创新实践》课为抓手，培养本科生的动手能力和创新能力，为将来成为全面发展的创新型高端人才奠定坚实的基础。
师资队伍自强学院由分管教学的副校长直接领导。现由上海大学副校长、博士生导师叶志明教授担任院长，博士
生导师顾传青教授担任副院长。聘请清华大学国家级教学名师范钦珊教授指导学生开展研究型学习。
由我校中国科学院院士、中国工程院院士、博士生导师和有关专家给予指导，学校选派优秀的教师任教。
奖学金凡是进入自强学院学习的学生，在第一学年享受特等奖学金。第二学年和第三学年则分别根据上一学年学习成绩评定。凡是成绩优异的学生均可享受特等奖学金，没有比例限制。
培养模式基础教学强化班学生进校后经过选拔进入学院学习两年，不分专业，在知识结构上实施全面发展，着重对学生自学能
力、创新能力、实践能力和心理素质进行指导和培养。在第二学年第三学期和夏季短学期，对将进入各学院的学生安排适量专业接口课。学生成绩合格则可自主选择进入校内除艺术专业、中欧工程技术学院、悉尼工商学院以外的任何学院专业继续学习两年；或者到与上海大学合作的海外大学进行深造。本硕连读综合班从2007级开始引入本硕连读机制：自强学院2年＋研究所4年。学生一、二年级在强化班完成172学分。根据本硕连读名额，选拔优秀学生进入上海大学各研究所，由自强学院继续管理。在进入研究所的第一年，学生完成若干本科课程。从第二年到第四年，执行研究生课程培养方案。
历史沿革为探索本科教育基础教学改革的新路，我校自1997年开设基础教学强化班。2007年，基础教学强化班
升格为自强学院（取义校训“自强不息，先天下之忧而忧，后天下之乐而乐”）。自强学院使学生的知识结构得以全面展，并着重对学生自学能力、创新能力、实践能力和心理素质进行指导和培养。在前两年内，强化英语、数、理、化、生、文、史、哲、经和计算机教学，注重成才素养培养。两年后，自强学院学生成绩基本合格则可以选择进入上海大学除艺术专业，悉尼工商学院，中欧工程技术学院以外的任何学院任何专业继续学习。自强学院的教学计划单列，由主管教学的副校长亲自指导，由我校中国科学院院士、中国工程院院士、博士研究生导师和有关专家给予指导和培养，有四位院士、近四十位博士研究生导师开设了专题讲座。自强学院由学校选派优秀的教师任教。对于有志攻读硕士研究生的学生，学校提前配备导师。基础教学强化班自1997年创建以来，历届学生已经走上工作岗位，毕业生受到用人单位一致好评，深受社会欢迎。或者在通信与信息系统、电路与系统、 微波技术、计算机系统结构、计算机软件与理论、材料物理与化学、生命科学、国际贸易等专业方向攻读硕士学位。有关学院为他们配备了包括博士生导师在内的指导教师，自强学院学生在自学能力和综合素质上已显出很大优势。
Intensive Groundwork Program (IGP) Laying the groundwork may sound unexciting and lacking the brilliance that attracts people’s attention. However, such painstaking work is indispensable and extremely important. Once the foundation is solidified, one can construct anything. The Intensive Groundwork Program has exactly been following this concept since 1997 when it was established to devote itself to the reform of undergraduate education for the 21st century,and in 2007 IGP. Its purpose is to lay a firm and broad foundation for potential orientation towards various disciplines, and place special emphasis upon fostering students’ ability to study independently, and cultivating innovative inclination, operational practice as well as their well-disciplined psyche. Those who are admitted to this program are supposed to pursue intensified studies in such disciplines as English, mathematics, physics, chemistry, life science, literature, history, philosophy, economics and computer application. Importance is attached to promoting students’ inclination for accomplishment or attainment. At the end of the sophomore year, the qualified students choose a field of concentration (with the exception of arts) and go on to their junior and senior courses. This program is directly under the direction of the Vice President of the Shanghai University. And the academicians of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering, doctoral supervisors and other experts give valuable guidance to the academic curriculum. Four academicians of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering and over 40 doctoral supervisors have come to give lectures or seminars to these students. The faculty is an outstanding group of professors, instructors, and researchers. Supervisors give advice and guidance to those who are determined to pursue postgraduate studies. Every year this program enrolls new students ranging in number from 45 to 90 respectively in a growing trend. Those who were admitted in the successive three years since 1997 have either taken up their occupation, or entered upon their postgraduate studies in particular fields, such as communication and information system, electronic circuit and system, microwave technology, computer system and structure, computer software and theory, material physics and chemistry, life science, international economics and trade, etc. The IGP students admitted in 2000 and 2001 have chosen their major areas and are now pursuing their junior or senior studies. Some of them have begun studying under their advisors or supervisors in order to apply for Master’s studies. All of those who were admitted in the Intensive Groundwork Program have shown their distinctive features in remarkable abilities to study independently as well as their superb quality in different spheres of life.