In order to actively adapt to the challenge of a more globalized environment, SQU establishes important policies of opening, international cooperation and exchange. It has built a friendly relationship, achieving a fruitful cooperation between student and tutor mutual visit, academic exchange, and collaborative cultivating talents, with more than 10 universities from many countries, such as New Zealand, Britain, France, Thailand, the United States, and Canada etc..

The SQU adheres to open education and carries out international cooperation and exchange. It has established cooperation relationship with 18 universities from 8 countries including New Zealand, the United Kingdom, France and Thailandetc.. It has actively carried out inter-university cooperation projects, and signed inter-university cooperation agreements with seven overseas universities, including the University of Huddersfield in the United Kingdom, Bolin University in Thailand, and Southern Institute of Technology in New Zealand, to carry out substantive cooperation in the fields of mutual visits between teachers and students, academic exchanges, and joint talent cultivation.It has vigorously promoted academic research and education programs for key teachers and outstanding students abroad, and sent key teachers and outstanding students to the University of Cambridge, the University of Toronto, the University of Melbourne and other world-renowned universities for study and exchange every year.In recent years, the Consul General of India, South Korea and other countries in Shanghai have visited the university. Taking advantage of the visits of the Consul General of other countries, the university has actively promoted the cooperation with them in the field of education.