Shanghai Urban Construction Vocational College (SUCC) is a higher vocational institution established by the Shanghai Municipal People's Government and administered by the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission. It has been recognized as a national high-quality higher vocational college, designated as Shanghai's vocational college under the "Double First-Class Initiative" and the "Double High-Level Plan," and honored as a "Shanghai Model School for Governing by Law," a "Shanghai Safe and Civilized Campus," and a "Shanghai Garden Unit." It has also been awarded the title of "Shanghai Civilized Unit" for ten consecutive years.

    With a focus on modern urban construction, livable city renewal, refined urban governance, and high-quality urban life to optimize its program offerings, SUCC has cultivated high-quality technical and skilled talents with modern awareness, international perspectives, and the spirit of model workers and craftsmen. SUCC comprises nine secondary schools: Digital Construction, City Operation & Management, Municipal and Ecological Engineering, Architecture and Environment Art, Application of Artificial Intelligence, Health and Social Care, Business Administration, Food and Tourism, and Continuing Education. It offers 44 majors, including Architectural Engineering Technology, Municipal Engineering Technology, Construction Cost, Prefabricated Architectural Engineering Technology, Ancient Architectural Engineering, Restoration and Protection of Cultural Relics, Modern Estate Management, Big Data and Accounting, Smart Health Service and Management for Seniors, Food Quality & Safety, Big Data Technology, Intelligent Control Technology, and Hotel Management & Digital Operation. Among these, 14 are national key majors, eight are Shanghai's first-class majors, and six are Shanghai's high-level professional clusters in vocational education. Currently, SUCC has over 10,000 enrolled students.

    SUCC implements a talent-strengthening strategy and continuously enhances its faculty development. It currently has 802 staff members, including 617 full-time teachers. Among them, 59 hold full professorship titles, and 36.7% hold senior professional titles. There are 131 doctoral degree holders, and 88% of teachers hold master's degrees or higher. Among full-time professional teachers, 83.95% are "dual-qualified" teachers (with both academic and industry credentials). SUCC has been approved for 19 provincial- and ministerial-level teaching teams, and its faculty members have taken on over 200 important social roles, including review experts for National Teaching Achievement Awards, experts for undergraduate teaching assessments under the Ministry of Education, review experts for projects under the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and review experts for master's/doctoral theses under the China Academic Degrees and Graduate Education Development Center. Five teachers have been selected as members of the National Steering Committee for Industrial Vocational Education and Teaching, with one serving as vice-chairperson. Twenty-four teachers have been appointed as adjunct faculty by overseas universities or academic institutions.

    Adhering to the educational philosophy of fostering virtue and developing skills, SUCC has continuously deepened education and teaching reform. It has led or participated in the development of six national teaching resource libraries, published seven national planning textbooks, established two national online courses, one national demonstration course on ideological and political education under the Ministry of Education, seven Shanghai's municipal demonstration courses on ideological and political education, and two Shanghai's municipal demonstration courses integrating Party history learning and education with the curriculum. SUCC serves as a national training base for the WorldSkills Competition and a training venue in Shanghai. Eight students were selected for the Chinese national training teams for the 45th and 46th WorldSkills Competitions. Four students have been awarded titles such as National Technical Expert, National Industry Technical Expert, and Shanghai Technical Expert. SUCC students have also won gold medals and first prizes in major competitions such as the China International College Students' "Internet+" Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition and the National Vocational College Skills Competition. SUCC teachers have won one second prize in the National Teaching Achievement Award and one second prize in the National Vocational College Teaching Ability Competition.

    SUCC has continuously deepened industry-education integration and school-enterprise cooperation, and has spearheaded one Ministry of Education-certified demonstration vocational education group (under incubation), taken the lead in establishing or participated in 16 municipal industry-education alliances and industry-education integration communities (including two municipal-level projects), and secured approval for two municipal industry-education integration practice centers. It has established 19 master studios with enterprises, six of which are municipal-level projects. It has established long-term and stable school-enterprise cooperative relationships with leading enterprises such as China Construction Eighth Engineering Division Corp., Ltd., Shanghai Construction Group, Donghu Group, and Bright Group. In 2024, SUCC received funds of over RMB 26 million for its horizontal projects.

    SUCC values international exchange and cooperation. It is a vice-chairman unit of the Belt & Road Education Committee, China Education Association for International Exchange (BREC-CEAIE) and a vice-chairman unit of the International Collaborations Committee, Chinese Society for Technical and Vocational Education. It has been selected as a Chinese member university in the "China-Arab Universities 10+10 Cooperation Plan" and one of the first batch of project schools under the "China-ASEAN Thousand Schools Hands Together Initiative." It has established eight overseas teaching bases in Asia, Africa, and Europe. It has developed 19 vocational standards, professional standards, and curriculum standards for nine countries, including Tanzania and Gambia. SUCC has been repeatedly awarded the China-Thailand TVET Cooperation Outstanding Contribution Award and ranked among the Top 50 Influential Asia-Pacific Vocational Colleges. Its multiple international exchange and cooperation cases have been included in the Annual Report on Higher Vocational Education Quality and recognized as exemplary cases by institutions such as the National Association of Vocational Education of China.

    SUCC has proactively engaged in serving national strategies, taking active roles in major initiatives such as the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta and border region support programs. It has spearheaded the establishment of three regional alliance organizations for the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta and founded two specialized research institutions. Serving as the secretariat unit of the Shanghai-Kashi Vocational Education Alliance and designated by the Ministry of Education as the leading institution for paired assistance to Kashi Polytechnic Vocational and Technical College, it has dispatched five officials and teachers to Xinjiang for temporary assignments to provide support.

    SUCC's achievements have been recognized by multiple third-party evaluators. In the Best Chinese Vocational Colleges Ranking 2025 by ShanghaiRanking, it ranked 50th overall, 29th in the Science and Engineering category, and 1st in Shanghai. In the 2025 China Alumni Association Rankings of Chinese Higher Vocational Colleges (Category I), it ranked 39th nationally and 1st in Shanghai. In the 2025 China Higher Vocational Colleges Rankings by WU RANKINGS, it ranked 81st overall, 39th in the Science and Engineering category, and has held the top position in Shanghai for three consecutive years.