About Tianjing University

Founded in 1895 as Tientsin University/Imperial Tientsin University, Tianjing University is the first modern higher education institution in China, and now a national university under the direct administration of the Ministry of Education of China.

Tianjin University is a key university in China, one of China’s first group of key universities of "Project 211" and "Project 985". The university currently has a working staff of over 4,600, including 342 professors, 662 associate professors, 13 academicians (5 academicians of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 8 academicians of Chinese Academy of Engineering) and 23 special engaged professors of “Yangtze Scholar Award Project” of the Ministry of Education. The total student population is 25,000 with 9500 doctoral students and students for master's degree. Over 100,000 students have graduated from Tianjin University.

According to the incomplete statistics, 50 experts and scholars who once studied or taught at the university have become academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering. More than 100 provincial, municipal, autonomous regional or ministerial leaders were graduated from Tianjin University since the founding of the People’s Republic of China.

The university now has 6 national key disciplines and 17 municipal key disciplines. Some disciplines with advantages and characteristics such as power machinery and engineering, optical engineering, testing and measuring technology and instruments, chemical engineering, chemical technology, management science and engineering, mechanics, architecture, material science and engineering, are all leading disciplines in China and have international influence.

For the time being, the university has 12 first-grade disciplines and 49 second-grade disciplines that confer Doctoral degree, 87 disciplines conferring master's degree, 17 engineering disciplines conferring master's degree in engineering. The university also confers master's degrees in business administration (MBA) and public administration (MPA). At present there are 15 postdoctoral research programs, 4 national key laboratories, 1 national engineering research center, 2 technology research and promotion centers of national scientific and technological achievements, 7 engineering technological R&D centers and open laboratories at ministerial level.