Sanda University (上海杉达学院) is the first private university established in People's Republic of China (since all universities were made public immediately following the 1949 revolution), located in Shanghai. The University has around 10,000 students and 450 full-time academic staff, covering a range of academic disciplines including business, computer science, engineering, foreign languages and management. On June 26, 1992, a group of professors from Shanghai Jiaotong University, Peking University and Tsinghua University, three of the leading universities in China, initiated the notion of establishing a university with funding from the private sector. Sanda University was thus founded on August 11, 1992.It was the first full-time private university offering programs leading to accredited certificates and diplomas in the country, and on March 6, 2002, with the official ratification of the Chinese Ministry of Education, it became, under the supervision of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, the first full-time private comprehensive university providing undergraduate courses in China.