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Tianjin University

Tianjin University is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education. Its predecessor is Beiyang University. It was founded on October 2, 1895. It is the first modern university in China. The tradition of "patriotic dedication" is well-known at home and abroad. In 1951, it was renamed as Tianjin University after the adjustment of national schools and departments. It was one of the first batch of 16 national key universities identified by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in 1959. Building a first-class university" Class A colleges and universities.


The development of Tianjin University has always received the warm care and strong support of the main leaders of the party and the country. Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and Xi Jinping have visited the school in person. For a long time, through the unremitting efforts of all teachers and students, Tianjin University has become a high-level research university with strong faculty, distinctive subject characteristics, education quality and scientific research level among the first-class domestically and with greater international influence.


The Weijin Road Campus of Tianjin University occupies a total area of 1.4 million square meters, a building area of 1.38 million square meters, and a building area of 836,000 square meters for teaching and research. The school campus has a clean environment and beautiful scenery. It is known as a garden-style school. The Begonia season in mid-April attracts tens of thousands of citizens to visit. The school’s Weijin Road campus has two libraries with a total construction area of 26,000 square meters, and the Beiyangyuan campus has a library with a total area of 43,000 square meters. The two campuses have a total collection of nearly 3 million books and periodicals, as well as a variety of audiovisual materials. , There are 14,500 kinds of miniature data and 86 electronic databases. The Beiyang Park campus of Tianjin University occupies a total area of 2.436 million square meters and a planned total construction area of 1.3 million square meters. The first phase of construction of 900,000 square meters has been completed and it was put into use in September 2015. The Beiyang Park campus has inherited the heavy and elegant Beiyang elements, and at the same time is full of harmony and wisdom of modernity.


There are 4727 faculty members, including 5 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and 7 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. 92 people were selected from the National "Thousand Talents Program", 219 people were selected from the Tianjin "Thousand Talents Program", 62 "Changjiang Scholars" distinguished professors and chair professors, 17 "973" chief scientists, and 44 winners of the National Outstanding Youth Fund. Among them, 45 were winners of the National "Excellent Youth Science Fund", 27 were selected for the National "Ten Thousand Talents Program", 8 were selected for the "Ten Thousand Talents Program" young top talents, and 846 faculty members with professional titles of senior high or above. There are 779 professors. The school currently has 33,159 full-time students, including 17,724 undergraduates, 11,410 master's students, and 4,025 doctoral students.


The school aims at cultivating high-quality top-notch innovative talents, adheres to the school-running ideas of "offering characteristics, producing high-quality products, and improving standards", and adheres to the education and teaching concepts of "education-oriented", "teaching priority", and "quality first". Students implement comprehensive training, continuously strengthen undergraduate education, vigorously develop graduate education, and establish an education and teaching system that meets the needs of economic construction and social development in the new century. There are currently 6 national-level teaching teachers award winners; 9 national-level teaching teams; 42 national-level quality courses; 6 national-level bilingual teaching demonstration courses; 6 national-level professional comprehensive reform pilot projects; national-level talent training innovation 10 experimental areas; 27 national-level "Twelfth Five-Year" planning textbooks (participated in the compilation of 2 types); and 12 national-level engineering practice education centers; 7 national-level experimental teaching demonstration centers, and national-level virtual simulation experimental teaching centers 3 and "National University Student Cultural Quality Education Base", "National Demonstrative Software Academy", "National Integrated Circuit Talent Training Base", and 4 National Demonstrative Professional Degree Postgraduate Joint Training Bases. They are the first batch of "National University Student Innovative Experiments" Plan" was selected into the school. The one-time employment rate of graduates has always been among the best in the national colleges and universities, and the one-time employment rate of 2017 graduates exceeded 98.59%.


  In the construction of disciplines, it has formed a discipline layout that focuses on engineering, integrates science and engineering, and coordinated development of multiple disciplines such as economics, management, literature, law, medicine, education, art, and philosophy. There are 64 undergraduate majors, 37 master's programs in first-level disciplines, 28 doctoral programs in first-level disciplines, and 23 post-doctoral research stations. In the fourth round of national discipline evaluation, Tianjin University has 25 first-level disciplines participating in the evaluation, and the number of A-category disciplines reached 14. Among them, chemical engineering and technology disciplines enter the A+ file, 4 disciplines enter the A file (2%-5%), and 9 disciplines enter the A- file (5%-10%). Compared with the results of the third round of subject evaluation, the number of subjects entering the top 5% increased by 3, and the number of subjects entering the top 10% increased by 8. Eight subject areas are among the top one percent of ESI, and 3 of them are among the top one-thousandths of ESI. The "Tianjin Chemical and Chemical Collaborative Innovation Center" led by our school was recognized by the Ministry of Education in 2013 and became one of the first 14 "2011 Collaborative Innovation Centers" in the country.


   The school has strong scientific research strength, always focusing on the major strategic needs of the country, focusing on the frontier of world scientific and technological development, and has achieved fruitful results. There are 4 national key laboratories, 4 national engineering laboratories, 1 national engineering technology research center, 3 national engineering research centers, 3 national international scientific and technological cooperation bases, 8 key laboratories of the Ministry of Education, 5 Ministry of Education Engineering Research Center, 23 Tianjin Key Laboratories, 27 Tianjin Engineering Centers, 22 Tianjin International Cooperation Bases. There are 3 innovation research groups of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, 12 innovation teams of the Ministry of Education, and 1 national defense science and technology innovation team. In 2017, the school’s scientific research achievements became more and more evident. 4 achievements won the National Science and Technology Award, 4 achievements won the Scientific Research Outstanding Achievement Award of Higher Education Institutions, 32 achievements won the Tianjin Science and Technology Award, 6 patents won the China Patent Award, and 6 The patent won the Tianjin Patent Award. In 2017, scientific research funding achieved steady and sustained growth, with a total scientific and technological funding of 2.67 billion yuan, 15 key R&D plans approved, ranking among the top universities in the country; 1 national science and technology major special project approved, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China There are 345 projects and 68 projects from Tianjin Natural Science Foundation. The humanities and social sciences have gradually developed and expanded, the number of social science projects has increased, and the research fields have been diversified. 14 national social science fund projects have been approved, and 4 think tanks have been selected as source think tanks of the China Think Tank Index (CTTI). According to the data released by the CITIC Institute in 2017, in 2016, our school’s SCI included 3095 papers and EI included 3617 papers; according to the school library data, the number of SCI included papers in our school in 2017 was 3,531. The school's science and technology industry is booming. In 2017, 4 new science and technology cooperation agreements were signed with provinces, cities, and districts, 10 new school-enterprise joint R&D institutions were added, and 66 school-enterprise joint R&D institutions have been established. Strengthen the in-depth cooperation in science and technology between districts and schools, and vigorously promote the construction of research institutes in different places such as Tianjin University (Wuqing) Frontier Technology Research Institute, Binhai Industrial Research Institute, Qingdao Marine Engineering Research Institute and Shandong Research Institute, so as to effectively serve the local social and economic development.


   In the 122 years since its establishment, Tianjin University has trained more than 200,000 high-level talents for the motherland, and has made indelible contributions to the establishment of my country's modern industrial system and the development of modern economic society. Revolutionary pioneer Zhang Tailei, economist Ma Yinchu, diplomats Wang Chonghui, Wang Zhengting, mathematician Qin Fen, famous poet Xu Zhimo and many other sages, "two bombs and one star" hero Wu Ziliang, Yao Shuren, Hong Kong industrialist Rong Zhijian, etc. have all been here Bingzhu night reading; famous jurist Zhao Tianlin, bridge expert Mao Yisheng, mechanical expert Liu Xianzhou, chemical expert Hou Debang, water conservancy expert Zhang Hanying, physicist Zhang Guofan, educator Li Shusen and other well-known scholars have taught here. According to incomplete statistics, among the school’s alumni, there are more than 60 academicians of the “two academies” and more than 50 university presidents. Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the school has trained a large number of senior leaders and hundreds of heads and chief engineers of large national enterprises. Particularly eye-catching is that Tianjin University alumni successfully "joined together" in the construction of the venues for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games: Cui Kai (Chief Director of the Olympic Project of China Architecture Design and Research Institute), Li Xinggang (Chinese Design Host of the National Stadium-"Bird's Nest") More than ten leading figures, including Zhao Xiaojun (Chinese chief designer of the National Aquatics Center-"Water Cube"), are all graduates of Tianjin University.


   The school attaches great importance to international exchanges and cooperation. There are currently 3,046 international students from 140 countries and regions. Signed agreements with 210 universities, research institutions and companies in 42 countries and regions in the world. Three Confucius Institutes have been established overseas, namely the Confucius Institute in Bratislava, Slovakia, the Confucius Institute at the University of Queensland in Australia, and the Confucius Institute at the University of Nice in France.


At the beginning of the century, the school formulated an overall development goal and a "three-step" development strategy for the new century: strive to build the school into a world-renowned high-level university, and build it into a comprehensive, research-oriented, and open-ended university in the middle of this century. , An international world-class university.