1949年11月，上海俄文专科学校为加强学生思想政治理论课教学，成立了马克思主义教研室，先后经历了1977年马列主义教研部，1992年社会科学教研部等发展历程。
2015年5月，在社会科学教研部的基础上成立了马克思主义学院，2017年获批上海高校示范马克思主义学院，2023年获批上海高校特色马克思主义学院。上外马克思主义学院承担了全校本科生和研究生的思想政治理论课教学、马克思主义理论研究、马克思主义理论学科建设和人才培养、教学科研梯队建设和社会服务等工作。马克思主义学院的建立，促进我校进一步完善学科布局、增强学科交叉融合能力，进一步加强马克思主义理论学科建设、提升社会主义高端国际型人才培养能力，进一步推进思想政治理论教育改革和马克思主义理论研究及学科建设。
2006年，上外马克思主义学院（社科部）获“思想政治教育”二级学科硕士学位授权点，2021年获批马克思主义理论一级学科硕士学位授权点。目前，马克思主义学院有专任教师25人，其中教授5人，副教授10人，马学科硕士生研究生导师17人，学缘结构丰富，教师毕业于复旦大学、中国人民大学、武汉大学、南京大学、华东师范大学、上海财经大学、上海外国语大学、中央党校、上海社科院等知名高校和研究机构，具备扎实的学术研究能力和国际视野。马克思主义学院设立“创新马克思主义研究中心”、“中国近现代社会经济研究中心”、“中国特色社会主义海外传播研究中心”、“中外经济哲学研究中心”。 “思想政治教育”二级学科硕士于2007年开始招生，已培养了58位硕士研究生，就业去向主要是大中学校、党政机关、科研院所和企业，从事马克思主义教学、学生思政工作和相关管理工作，也有部分毕业生攻读马学科专业博士。2021年我院学生在读期间获得国家奖学金、上外优秀学生干部、上海市优秀毕业生等荣誉，近三年的就业率都达到100%。
上外马克思主义学院是上海市高校伟大建党精神研究中心上海外国语大学分中心重要研究部门，作为上海市课程思政领航高校，外语专业教学与思想政治理论课有机结合实现全覆盖，得到央视、《光明日报》等专题报道。我校是中宣部推进《习近平谈治国理政》多语种版本“进高校、进教材、进课堂”的3所试点高校之一。马克思主义理论学科在“讲述中国故事、传播中国声音”等领域发挥重要作用。
Overview of the School of Marxism
In November 1949 after the founding of People’s Republic of China, the Marxism Research Office of the Shanghai Russian School（the predecessor of Shanghai International Studies University, SISU）was set up in order to improve the teaching of ideological and political theory courses. It then went through several stages of development, including the Marxist-Leninist Research Department in 1977 and the Social Science Research Department in 1992.
The School of Marxism Studies was founded in May 2015, and credited as model School among universities in Shanghai in 2017, and further as the characteristic School in 2023. The School of Marxism Studies provides ideological and political theory courses to all undergraduate and graduate students of SISU, conducts research in Marxism studies, builds a complete Marxist discipline, put in place teaching and research teams, and organizes activities to give back to the community. It has been devoted to improving the layout of disciplines, strengthening interdisciplinary integration, advancing the building of a complete Marxist discipline system, enhancing the training of high-calibre talents with a global vision, upgrading ideological and political theory courses, and promoting research in Marxism studies.
In 2006, the School of Marxism Studies was authorized to grant the Master's degree in the second-level discipline — Ideological and Political Education. In 2021, it was approved to confer the Master's degree in the first-level discipline — Marxist Theory. Currently, the School of Marxism Studies has 25 full-time teachers, including 5 professors and 10 associate professors, and 17 of them serve as Master's and doctoral supervisors. With solid academic and research background, they are all graduates of well-known universities and research institutions such as Fudan University, Renmin University of China, Wuhan University, Nanjing University, East China Normal University, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai International Studies University, the Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party, and Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences.
The School has established four research centres — Centre for Innovative Research in Marxist Studies, Centre for the Study of Modern Chinese Society and Economy, Research Centre for the Global Influence of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, and Centre for the Study of Chinese and Foreign Economic Philosophy.
The Master's program in the second-level discipline of Ideological and Political Education began to take in students in 2007 and has 58 graduates so far. Some of the graduates are now teaching at major universities and colleges, some of them are working for government agencies and scientific research institutes, and some of them are pursuing doctoral degrees in Marxism studies. In 2021, the scholarships and awards received by our students include: China National Scholarship, Shanghai Student Leadership Award, and Shanghai Outstanding Graduate Award.
As a demonstration school of Marxism studies in Shanghai, the School is an important research partner of the SISU branch of the Research Centre for the Ideals Guiding the Building of the Communist Party of China. Our practice of combining the foreign language teaching and the ideological and political education has been reported by China Central Television and Guangming Daily. SISU is awarded by the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China one of the three pilot universities to integrate the multi-lingual versions of Xi Jinping: the Governance of China into university education, textbooks, and classrooms. We believe a complete Marxist theory discipline will play an important role in effectively conveying China's views and positions to the world.
