上海出版印刷高等專科學校創建于1953年，是新中國建立的第一所出版印刷類學校，中國出版印刷專業教育的搖籃，國家新聞出版署（原國家新聞出版總署）與上海市人民政府共建的特色學校。2008年，學校在教育部高職高專院校人才培養工作水平評估中被評為優秀。2010年，學校被列為國家100所骨干建設高職院校單位之一，2015年通過教育部和財政部兩部委驗收并獲得“優秀”等級。學校是國家高等職業教育專業教學資源庫建設單位；是上海市建設現代大學制度的首批試點單位；上海市第一批依法治校示范校單位。2017年，學校1名教師入選第46屆世界技能大賽申辦形象大使，學校助力上海獲得2021年世界技能大賽舉辦權。2018年榮獲國家級教學成果二等獎，并獲得教育部“傳統技藝傳承示范基地”稱號。2021年，“分類評價”工作在上海“應用技能型院校”中再次以顯著優勢排名第一，社會行業影響力顯著提升。

近70年來為我國的出版印刷業培養了7萬多名高層次技術骨干和行業高級管理人才。學生連續四屆代表中國參加世界技能大賽，并分別在2013年和2015年榮獲第42屆和第43屆世界技能大賽印刷媒體技術項目銅牌和銀牌；在2017年和2018年連續兩屆美國印刷大獎中，學校師生勇奪其中15項最高獎項——班尼金獎（Benny Award）。中國印刷傳媒高技能人才正陸續從學校走向世界。學校被人力資源社會保障部確定為第43、44、45屆世界技能大賽印刷媒體技術項目中國集訓基地，被授予“國家技能人才培育突出貢獻獎”。學校被原國家新聞出版廣電總局確定為“國家印刷出版人才培養基地”，連續五次被授予“技能人才培育突出貢獻獎”。2018年3月，世界技能組織主席西蒙·巴特利受聘學校名譽教授，建立了“西蒙·巴特利中國技能研究工作室”。

學校以培養服務上海和全國出版印刷傳媒業的技術技能型人才為己任，秉承“立足上海、領先國內、依托行業、服務社會”的辦學理念，以“工文藝融匯、編印發貫通、教學做互動”為辦學特色，致力于建設特色鮮明的應用技術技能型高等院校，使學校成為國家出版印刷人才培養基地、上海文化創意產業服務基地、國際先進傳媒技術推廣基地。

學校秉持“崇德弘文篤行致遠”校訓，堅持內涵發展、特色發展，國際化發展，傳承中國出版印刷優秀文化，積極吸收借鑒國際化的教育思路、先進的教育理念、豐富的教育內容及靈活的育人形式，形成了工、文、藝相互滲透且有鮮明特色的“印刷工程與包裝設計”、“出版傳播與文化管理”、“藝術設計與影視動漫”三大專業群。學校現設有印刷包裝工程系、出版與傳播系、信息與智能工程系、藝術設計系、文化管理系、影視藝術系、動漫與電競系、基礎教學部、馬克思主義學院、現代傳媒技術與藝術學院和繼續教育部等教學部門。

學校以就業為導向，注重工文藝融合，注重學生專業技術技能訓練和職業素質，依托行業產業，構建由課程實驗、生產實訓、頂崗實習實踐教學體系。學校建有一流的實驗、實訓設施，專業設備種類齊全，實驗實訓項目豐富。由學校為牽頭單位建設的“柔版印刷綠色制版與標準化實驗室”獲批為首批新聞出版業科技與標準重點實驗室中的“專業領域實驗室”，這是學校獲批立項建設的國家省部級重點實驗室。

學校高度重視國際合作與交流，與美國、加拿大、俄羅斯、英國、法國、德國、意大利、芬蘭、瑞典、愛沙尼亞、日本、新加坡等30多個國家和地區的高等院校、跨國公司、行業組織建立了良好的合作與交流關系，其中不乏美國羅切斯特理工大學、芬蘭奧盧大學、俄羅斯莫斯科國立印刷大學、新加坡南洋理工大學、德國海德堡印刷機械有限公司、日本小森公司等國際知名單位。學校與美國羅切斯特理工學院合作舉辦的印刷圖文信息處理（專科）合作辦學項目被評為第二屆上海市示范性中外合作辦學表彰項目。學校順利完成印刷媒體技術專業ACCGC認證現場評估工作。國際化辦學成為學校的品牌。

學校積極服務國家“一帶一路”倡議，協助孟加拉國家印刷工業協會籌建印刷職業學院。與香港印刷科技研究中心、上海市印刷行業協會合作建立“Idealliance-China G7 培訓基地”，大力開展境外技術技能培訓。編寫的《出版印刷人才培養教材》作為培訓教材為“一帶一路”沿線國家印刷員工開展印刷技能培訓，推進了國際出版印刷服務合作、促進了出版印刷業與沿線國家的合作與交流。

目前學校有全日制在校生近6000人。學校培養的學生一直受到用人單位的廣泛歡迎。學校畢業生就業率連續多年一直在99%以上，專升本率保持在15%以上。

學校堅持“觀念興校、特色立校、人才強校”，夯實“三位一體”的國家示范性骨干高職院校建設成果，堅持校企合作多員參與的辦學方向，努力把學校打造成為具有國際重要影響力的中國出版印刷傳媒領域高等職業教育龍頭院校，致力于為我國培養具有國際視野、人文素養、藝術眼光、創新意識的印刷出版傳媒類高端應用技術技能型人才，服務國家、上海的經濟社會和文化事業發展。

Founded in 1953, Shanghai Publishing and Printing College (SPPC) was the first higher educational institution linked to the publishing and printing industry in China. Co-sponsored by the former General Administration of Press and Publication and Shanghai Municipality, it is the cradle of professional education in this field. In 2008, SPPC was rated as excellent by the Ministryof Education in evaluation of talent training in higher vocational college. In 2010, it was listed as one of the 100 key construction units of higher vocational colleges in China. In 2015, it passed the inspection of the Ministryof Education and the Ministry of Finance and obtained the Excellent level. In 2017, a teacher of SPPC was selected as the image ambassador for the 46th World Skills Competition, and the college also helped Shanghai win the right to host the World Skills Competition in 2021.

Over the past 68 years, SPPC has trained more than 60,000 high-level technical talentsand senior management personnel for China's publishing and printing industry. Asrepresentatives of China, some students in SPPC attend the World Skills Competition for three years, and won the bronze and silver medals in the Print Media Technology Projects of the 42nd and 43rd World Skills Competitions, in 2013 and 2015 respectively. In the two consecutive American Printing Awards in 2017 and 2018, teachers and students from SPPC won 15 of the highest awards -- the Benny Award. As high-skilled talents in China's print media are gradually moving from SPPC to the world, the college was identified by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security as the China Training Base for the 43rd, 44th and 45th Print Media Technology Project in World Skills Competition, and wasawarded the “National Skilled Talent Training Outstanding Contribution Award”. SPPC has also been identified as the National Training Base for Printing and Publishing Talents by the former State Press and Publication Administration and has been awarded the Outstanding Contribution Award for the Trainingof Skilled Talents for five times. In March 2018, Simon Bartley, Presidentof the World Skills Organization, was hired as an honorary professor in the collegeand established Simon Bartley China Skills Research Studio.

SPPC takes it as its own responsibility to train technical and skilled talents whoserve the publishing and printing media industry in Shanghai and the wholecountry and adheres to the philosophy of “based in Shanghai, leading thecountry, rely on its advantages in the industry, and making a contribution tosociety”. With the characteristics of combination of engineering,literature and art; integration of editing, printing and development, and three-prongedway of teaching, learning and doing, SPPC is committed to building a distinctivecollege of applied technology skills, a national publishing and printing talenttraining base, a cultural and creative industry service base in Shanghai, and anadvanced media technology promotion base in the world.

Adhering to the motto of “Advocating Morality, Promoting Virtue, Practice Earnestly and Dedicatedto Prosperity, SPPC is committed to connotative development,characteristic development, international development. By inheriting China'sexcellent publishing and printing culture, and actively absorbing internationaleducation ideas, advanced concepts, rich content, and flexible forms ofeducation, SPPC has formed three major professional groups: Printing Engineeringand Packaging Design, Publishing Dissemination and Cultural Managementand Art design and Film and Television Animation, which areinfiltrated by engineering, literature and art with distinctivecharacteristics. The college currently has the Department of Printing and PackagingEngineering, Department of Publishing and Dissemination, Department of PrintingEquipment Engineering, Department of Art and Design, Department of Cultural Management,Department of Film and Television Art, Department of Foundational Teaching, Departmentof Ideological and Political Education, College of Modern Media Technology and Art,the Office of Continuing Education and other teaching departments.

Oriented by employment, SPPC eyes building a comprehensive college of engineering,literature and art, and pays attention to students' professional technicalskills training and vocational quality. Based on the industry situation, thecollege has formed a practical teaching system consisting of curriculumexperiments, production training, and internship practice. The college hasfirst-class experimental and training facilities, complete professionalequipment, and abundant experimental training programs. The Green Platemaking and Standardization Laboratory of flexographic Printing, built by SPPCas the leading unit, has been approved as the professional fieldlaboratory in the first batch of key laboratories of science, technology andstandards in the press and publishing industry, which is a national andprovincial key laboratory in project construction.

SPPC attaches great importance to internationalcooperation and exchanges, and has forged a good partnership with universities,multinational companies and industry organizations across more than 30countries and regions, including the United States, Canada, Russia, Britain,France, Finland, Japan and Singapore. Among them, there are many internationalwell-known units, such as Rochester Institute of Technology in the UnitedStates, the University of Oulu in Finland, Nanyang Technology University inSingapore, Heidelberg Printing Machinery Co., Ltd in German and Komori Co., Ltdin Japan. The college cooperates with the Otterbein University (in the US), theRochester Institute of Technology, the French 3IS-Institut International de L’imageet du son (3IS) and the French Business college Art, Culture, Luxury,  Cultural Heritage (EAC) to organize a numberof Chinese-foreign cooperative education projects approved by the ChineseMinistry of Education. Among them, the project of printing picture and textinformation processing (among colleges) jointly held by the university wasrated as the second Shanghai model Sino-foreign cooperative educationcommendation project. Since SPPC successfully completed the on-site evaluationof the American media Accrediting Council for Collegiate Graphic Communications(ACCGC) certification for print media technology, internationalized collegeinghas become the brand of SPPC.

SPPC actively responded to the Belt and Road Initiative of the country, vigorouslycarried out overseas technical skills programs, set up a Bisheng Workshop TrainingBase in Tashkent Institute of Textile and Light Industry in Uzbekistanand, andassisted the Bangladesh National Printing Industry Association in thepreparation of the printing vocational college. The book of Publishing andPrinting Personnel Training Textbook, as a training material, carries outprinting skills training for staff in countries along the Belt and Road, whichpromotes international publishing and printing service, and enhances thecooperation and exchanges between industry and the countries along the route.

At present, the college has nearly 6,000 full-time students. The students trainedby the college have been widely welcomed by the employers. The employment rateof college graduates has been above 99% for many years,  and the rate of undergraduate promotion hasbeen maintained at more than 15%.

SPPC adheres to the concept of “invigorating colleges with distinctive features,establishing colleges with unique characteristics, and strengthening collegeswith talents”, consolidates the “trinity” achievements in the construction of anational model backbone vocational college. It dedicates to the college-enterprisecooperation with multiple members, and strives to build the college into aninternational leading institutions of higher vocational education in the fieldof Chinese publishing, printing and media. Striving to build the college into aleading institution of higher vocational education in the field of publishingand printing media in China with important international influence, it is committedto training high-end applied technical talents of printing and publishing mediawith international vision, humanistic literacy, artistic vision and innovativeconsciousness, so as to serve the economic, social and cultural development ofShanghai and the country.