The College of International Education (CIE) was established in 2004. Relying on Shanghai's international and diversified economic model, CIE has carried out various forms of international exchange and cooperation under the shortage of international medical and nursing talents. After decades of development, CIE has established extensive cooperation in the field of health and medical education with universities in more than 10 countries in Europe, North America, Asia and Oceania. CIE has accumulated rich management experience in international medical education, and has made great achievements in cooperative education, bilingual teacher training, textbook development, and teacher-student international exchanges.

In 2019, CIE had a total of 300 international students which reached 1.99% of total full-time students. The international students are mainly from the United States, Japan, Norway, the Netherlands, Finland, Denmark, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Russia, Ukraine, Laos, and Thailand, etc. They are majoring in clinical medicine, pharmacy, nursing, medical testing, rehabilitation physical therapy, and health service and management, etc.