Currently the university has 9 major disciplines, namely, sciences, engineering, medicine, humanities, law, philosophy, economics, management and education. Under this broad category there are three state key disciplines--architecture, civil engineering, and traffic and transportation engineering; seven state key sub-disciplines--marine geology, engineering mechanics, machine designing and its theory, material science, control theory and control engineering, geodesy and geodetic engineering, environmental engineering; three state key sub-disciplines being developed--fundamental mathematics, condensed matter physics; and ten Shanghai municipal key disciplines --- architectural designing and its theory, history and theory of architecture, control theory and control engineering, solid mechanics, management science and engineering, traffic engineering, disaster prevention and reduction engineering, geological engineering, internal medicine and foreign philosophy.