Tianjin University, referred to as Tianda, was formerly known as Beiyang University. It was founded on October 2, 1895, and is the first modern university in China. After the failure of the Sino-Japanese War, the school was founded in Tianjin by Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty under the tenet of "self-strengthening is based on cultivating talents and seeking talents is based on the establishment of schools." Ren Supervisor. The school's first name is Beiyang University Hall, which has first-class school (undergraduate) and second-class school (pre-university). The first-class school has four disciplines: laws, engineering, mining and machinery.

In 1900, the Allied Forces of the Eight Kingdoms invaded Tianjin, and the school was forced to close. The school was reopened in April 1903 at Xigu Arsenal, Tianjin. In January 1912, the "Beijing University Hall" was named "Beijing University", in 1913 it was named "National Beiyang University", and it was put into trial operation in 1928. It was renamed "National Institute of Peking University Second Engineering", in 1929, according to The "Organization Law" school was renamed "National Beiyang Institute of Technology".

In 1937, following the outbreak of the "July 7th Incident", the school was relocated westward in accordance with the order of the Ministry of Education. On September 10, the National Xi'an Interim University was formed with Beiping University, Beiping Normal University, and the Peiping Research Institute. In March 1938, Linda was renamed "National Northwest United University". In July 1938, the National Northwestern United University was reorganized into National Northwestern University, National Northwestern Institute of Technology, National Northwestern Normal College, and National Northwestern Medical College. Among them, Beiyang Institute of Technology and Beiping University School of Technology, Northeastern University School of Technology and the private Jiaozuo Institute of Technology form the National Northwestern Polytechnical Institute, located in Chenggu County, Shaanxi Province. During the War of Resistance Against Japan, alumni from all walks of life in the school requested the restoration of the National Beiyang Institute of Technology. In December 1942, the National Institute of Government upgraded the former Zhejiang Yingshi University to National, and designated its Institute of Technology as an independent Beiyang Institute of Technology. In 1944 Li Shutian established the Xijing Branch of Beiyang Institute of Technology in Xi'an.

After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the National Beiyang Institute of Technology (Taishun), Beiyang Institute of Technology Xijing Branch, Northwestern Polytechnical Institute, and Peiping Department (Dean of Science Faculty Chen Kunmin accepted the "Fifth Class of Peking University and established Peking University Peiping Department") Teachers and students returned to Tianjin and restored the National Beiyang University. In 1946, they were renamed "Beiyang University". In 1951, Beiyang University merged with Hebei Institute of Technology and was named Tianjin University by the country. In 1952, the adjustment of colleges and universities across the country began. Tianjin University transferred more than a dozen department groups to enrich and establish a number of new universities, which nurtured a dwindling Chinese higher education. In 1959, it was designated by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China as the first batch of national key universities. After the reform and opening up, Tianjin University is one of the first key universities for the "211 Project" and "985 Project", and was selected as a national "World-Class University Construction" Class A university.

The development of Tianjin University has always received the cordial care and strong support of the main leaders of the party and the country. Comrades Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and Xi Jinping have visited the school. Since the establishment of the school, the school has upheld the mission of "prospering the country and strengthening the country", the school motto of "seeking truth from facts", the school spirit of "rigorous scholarship", the tradition of "patriotism and dedication" and the pursuit of "dedication to innovation", and has made outstanding contributions to the country's economic and social development. So far, more than 300,000 high-level talents have been cultivated for the country and society.

For a long time, thanks to the unremitting efforts of teachers and students throughout the university, Tianjin University has become a high-level research university with strong faculty, distinctive subject characteristics, education quality and scientific research level ranking first in China and having a large international impact.

Tianjin University has Weijin Road campus, Beiyangyuan campus and Binhai Industrial Research College campus. The Weijin Road campus covers a total area of ​​1.362 million square meters, the Beiyangyuan campus covers a total area of ​​2.436 million square meters, and the Binhai Industrial Research College area covers a total area of ​​309,000 square meters. The school currently has 35,370 full-time students, including 18,536 undergraduates, 12,572 graduate students, and 4,262 doctoral students. There are 4896 faculty members, including 5 members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and 7 members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. 17 "973" chief scientists, 65 selected from the "Cheung Kong Scholars" award program of the Ministry of Education, 51 winners of the National Outstanding Youth Science Fund, 51 winners of the National Outstanding Youth Science Fund, and "10,000 "People plan" 39 selected, 832 professors.

The school adheres to the development concept of "strong industry, good reason, vigor, and revitalization of medicine", and has formed a comprehensive development of multidisciplinary and coordinated development with obvious advantages in engineering, integration of science and technology, economics, management, literature, law, medicine, education, art, and philosophy. Subject layout. There are currently 64 undergraduate majors, 39 first-level subject masters, 28 first-level doctoral programs, and 23 post-doctoral research stations. In the fourth round of national disciplinary evaluations, Tianjin University had a total of 25 first-level disciplines participating in the assessment, and the number of entering A-level disciplines reached 14. Among them, chemical engineering and technology disciplines entered the A + grade, 4 disciplines entered the A grade (2% -5%), and 9 disciplines entered the A-grade (5% -10%). Nine subject areas entered the top one percent of the ESI, and three of them entered the top one thousandth of the ESI. The “Tianjin Collaborative Innovation Center for Chemistry and Chemical Engineering”, which was led by our school, became one of the first 14 “2011 Collaborative Innovation Centers” in China. In the latest National Higher Education Achievement Awards for Higher Education, Tianjin University was awarded 7 achievement awards as the first completion unit. Among them, "Engineering Education Reform and Practice towards New Engineering" completed by Zhong Denghua, etc., and Wang Jingkang etc. The two results of "Research and Practice of Comprehensive Reform of China's Chemical Higher Education" which are guided by norms, coordinated education, and balanced development won first prizes. At present, there are 6 national teaching teacher award winners; 9 national teaching teams; 42 national high-quality courses; 3 national high-quality online open courses; 9 national high-quality video public courses; national high-quality resource sharing courses 25 6 national bilingual teaching demonstration courses; 1 national virtual simulation experimental teaching project; 26 national specialty specialty construction sites; 10 national talent training and innovation experimental areas; 27 national "12th Five-Year" planning teaching materials 12 national engineering practice education centers; 7 national experimental teaching demonstration centers; 3 national virtual simulation experimental teaching centers; 4 national model professional degree postgraduate joint training bases; these are the first batch of "national university students innovative experiments" Plan "selected schools.

The school's scientific research strength is strong, always focusing on the country's major strategic needs, focusing on the world's scientific and technological development frontier, and achieved fruitful results. In the past 5 years, it has won 19 three national awards, including one second national science award, six second national technology invention awards, two first national science and technology progress awards, and ten second national science and technology progress awards. There are 4 national key laboratories, namely the State Key Laboratory of Hydraulic Engineering Simulation and Safety, the State Key Laboratory of Internal Combustion Engines, the State Key Laboratory of Precision Testing Technology and Instruments, and the State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering. 4 national engineering laboratories, 1 national engineering technology research center, 2 national engineering research centers, 3 national international scientific and technological cooperation bases, 8 key laboratories of the Ministry of Education, 5 engineering research centers of the Ministry of Education, and Tianjin key experiments There are 30 offices, 23 engineering centers in Tianjin, and 31 international cooperation bases in Tianjin. 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. It was officially approved to build a national major scientific and technological infrastructure, a large-scale earthquake engineering simulation research facility; it was approved to build a frontier science center for synthetic biology, and it is one of the first seven frontier science centers approved by the Ministry of Education. The school has been approved by 8 countries for the "Innovation and Induction Programs for Disciplines in Colleges and Universities", and the School of Pharmacy has been approved for the "Promotion Plan for International Model Colleges in Universities".

The school values ​​international exchanges and cooperation. Established "China-ASEAN Engineering University Alliance" and "China-Central European Union University of Science and Technology Innovation", "China-ASEAN Smart Ocean Education Center" and "International Energy Cooperation Agency-APEC Sustainable Energy Center" The school has signed agreements with 232 universities, research institutions and companies in 45 countries and 3 regions in the world. Three Confucius Institutes were established overseas, namely the Confucius Institute in Bratislava, Slovakia, the Confucius Institute at the University of Queensland, Australia, and the Confucius Institute at the University of Nice, France.