The School of Data Science and Engineering at East China Normal University (ECTU) is the only school named after data in the country and the world.

The best majors at East China Normal University are as follows:

Geographic Science, Environmental Science, Preschool Education, Special Education, Statistics, Software Engineering, Data Science and Big Data Technology, Microelectronics Science and Engineering, Chinese Language and Literature, and History.

East China Normal University (East China Normal University), referred to as "East China Normal University", is located in Shanghai, directly under the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, ranked as "world-class university construction of colleges and universities of category A It is listed in the "Class A of Universities Building World-Class Universities", "Project 985" and "Project 211", and selected for the "2011 Program", "111 Program", "National Training Program", and the "National Training Program". The university has been selected for the "2011 Program", "111 Program", "National Training Program", "Strong Foundation Program", "National Innovative Experimental Program for College Students", and "National Innovative Entrepreneurship Training Program for College Students".

The university is also a member of the National High-Level University Graduate Program, the Chinese Government Scholarship Program for International Students, the National Culture Quality Education Base for College Students, the Yangtze River Delta University Cooperation Alliance, the BRICS University Alliance, the Asia-Pacific University and College Alliance, and the Sino-Japanese Humanities Exchange University Alliance, and is one of the first doctoral degree-granting institutions in China, as well as a unit of independent audit of degree authorization.

The State Council approved the establishment of the Graduate School of colleges and universities, is the Ministry of Education, Shanghai Municipal People's Government and the State Oceanic Administration *** built a comprehensive research-oriented national key universities. East China Normal University was founded on October 16, 1951, based on Daxia University (1924), Guanghua University (1925), while transferring into St. John's University, Fudan University, Tongji University and Zhejiang University and other colleges and universities, part of the department, founded on the site of Daxia University.

In 1972, it merged with Shanghai Normal College and Shanghai Institute of Physical Education, and was renamed Shanghai Normal University. 1980, it resumed the name of East China Normal University. 1997-1998, Shanghai Early Childhood Teacher Training Higher Specialized School, Shanghai Institute of Education, and the Second Shanghai Institute of Education were successively merged into it.