Tianjin Polytechnic University

Tianjin Polytechnic University is a full-time regular institution of higher learning jointly built by the Ministry of Education and Tianjin Municipality and a key construction institution of Tianjin municipality. The university has a long history, founded in 1912, and was renamed Tianjin Polytechnic University in 2000. It has been included in the list of national "Double First-Class" universities in 2017 and 2022, and was approved as a university jointly built by the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for national Defense and Tianjin Municipality in 2018. It is one of the earliest institutions in China to offer higher education in textile, and has now developed into a university with engineering as its main focus. Engineering, science, liberal arts, management, economics, law, art and medicine are a multi-disciplinary comprehensive university with coordinated development.

The university covers a total area of over 1.5 million square meters and has a total building area of 860,000 square meters. The university has five faculties, 29 colleges, one college and two affiliated hospitals. Currently, there are nearly 18,000 undergraduate students, more than 5,300 full-time postgraduate students, more than 600 doctoral students, more than 500 adult education degree students, and nearly 2,000 international students of all kinds (more than 600 degree students).

The school has a strong faculty. The school has more than 2,200 staff members, including over 1,600 full-time teachers, over 1,000 teachers with doctoral degrees, and over 1,000 teachers with senior professional titles. It has 7 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 10 recipients of the National Major Talent Program, 8 recipients of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, 3 National outstanding professional and technical talents, and 7 national-level candidates of the "Hundred-Thousand-Million" talent program. It has more than 60 national-level high-level talents such as recipients of the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Science and Technology Award, recipients of the Guanghua Engineering Science and Technology Award, recipients of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, and experts of the Academic Degrees Committee of The State Council, and more than 200 provincial and ministerial-level talents of all kinds. It has more than 40 provincial and ministerial-level and above high-level teams, including the first batch of Huang Danyan-style teacher teams in national universities, national teaching teams, and Ministry of Education innovation teams, and has been selected as a national demonstration base for the cultivation of innovative talents.

The school adheres to the development strategy of "strengthening engineering, excelling science, refining liberal arts, and excelling medicine", and has formed a good disciplinary ecological layout with engineering as the main focus and coordinated development of multiple disciplines. The school has 61 undergraduate programs, including 25 national first-class programs, 6 national characteristic programs, 6 municipal first-class programs, 15 Tianjin brand programs, 6 Tianjin strategic emerging industry-related programs, 8 Tianjin advantageous and characteristic programs, and 12 applied programs. Two of the programs have been approved as brand programs for industry-education integration in regular colleges and universities in Tianjin, 15 are key new engineering programs in regular colleges and universities in Tianjin, and nine have passed the engineering education program accreditation. The university has 1 national key discipline, 12 Tianjin key disciplines, 1 discipline selected as a national "Double First-Class" discipline, 5 disciplines selected as Tianjin first-class disciplines, 5 disciplines selected as Tianjin Top Discipline Cultivation Program, 5 Tianjin Characteristic discipline clusters and 6 Tianjin Service Industry characteristic discipline clusters; The university has five postdoctoral research stations, eight doctoral degree authorization points (six first-level discipline doctoral degree authorization points, one doctoral professional degree authorization category, and one self-established interdisciplinary doctoral degree authorization point), 27 first-level discipline master's degree authorization points (including one interdisciplinary master's degree authorization point), and 15 master's professional degree authorization categories; The discipline of Textile Science and Engineering received an A+ in the fourth round of national discipline evaluation; Six disciplines entered the top 1% of ESI global rankings. Selected for the Discipline Innovation Program of Higher Education Institutions in 2018.

The school attaches great importance to the all-round development of students in terms of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics and labor. The school adheres to the principle of giving priority to morality, emphasizing ability, and combining all-round development with individual development. With students at the center, it deepens educational and teaching reforms and advances the nine major plans for improving the quality of undergraduate teaching, focusing on cultivating high-quality innovative talents who are broad-minded, pragmatic, of high moral character and academic excellence, diligent and skilled, have a high sense of social responsibility, innovative spirit and practical ability. The quality of talent cultivation has continued to improve, and graduates are highly favored by all sectors of society. There are four national-level experimental teaching demonstration centers and virtual simulation experimental teaching centers, nine national-level engineering practice education centers, 15 municipal-level experimental teaching demonstration centers and three municipal-level virtual simulation experimental teaching centers. Two have been approved as construction units of Tianjin Modern Industry College and one as construction unit of Tianjin Characteristic Demonstration Software College. One base for cultivating top-notch students in basic disciplines in Tianjin was approved. Selected as a national innovation and entrepreneurship education practice base construction unit. It has one national college students' cultural quality education base, two national college students' off-campus practical education bases, two National Model engineering professional degree Graduate Joint training Bases, one Tianjin College students' Science and Technology Entrepreneurship internship Base, and one Tianjin International Students' Internship and Practice base. The Maker Space has been recognized as one of the first batch of Tianjin mass innovation Spaces and one of the first batch of national mass innovation Spaces. In recent years, students have won more than 800 awards at or above the provincial and ministerial level in subject competitions each year, and have cultivated a group of outstanding college students and advanced collectives represented by Xu Wei, a national moral model. It is a "National Model University for Graduate Employment", a "National Advanced Unit for Research and Practice of Entrepreneurship Education in Higher Education Institutions", a "Demonstration University for Deepening Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Reform" by the Ministry of Education, and a "Demonstration University for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education and Employment Work in Regular Higher Education Institutions" in Tianjin.

The university has strong research capabilities and the ability to transform scientific and technological achievements. The school encourages independent innovation and highlights the characteristics of modern textiles and national defense and military industry. Our school, as the leading unit, has the National Key Laboratory of Advanced Separation Membrane Materials, one national international Joint research center, two national and local joint engineering research centers, two key laboratories of the Ministry of Education, two engineering research centers of the Ministry of Education, and one collaborative innovation center jointly built by the Ministry of Education and the province and the ministry. 8 Tianjin Key Laboratories, 4 Tianjin Engineering Centers, 6 Tianjin International Joint research Centers, 2 Tianjin Belt and Road Joint Research Centers, 1 Tianjin Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences, The Tianjin Research Center for the Theoretical System of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, the Tianjin Collaborative Innovation Center for Membrane Separation Technology, the Tianjin Technology Transfer Center, and the Tianjin Industrial Design Center have been established. In recent years, it has undertaken nearly a thousand projects of the 973 Program, the 863 Program, the National Key Research and Development Program (subject), the National Social Science Foundation Project, the National Natural Science Foundation project and various provincial and ministerial-level scientific research projects, and has achieved many landmark and breakthrough results. It has won 11 consecutive national science and technology awards for nine consecutive years and has accumulated 14 national science and technology awards. More than 1,000 patents have been granted. The school has developed distinctive research strengths such as "Advanced textile composites", "Membrane separation technology", "motor systems and their intelligent control", "Functional fibers and technical textiles", "fiber interface treatment technology", "Modern mechanical equipment", and many research achievements have broken international monopolies and been applied in major epidemic prevention and control, national strategic emerging industries and national defense high-tech industries. The university attaches great importance to technology transfer and is among the first batch of national intellectual property pilot universities. It has a national intellectual property information service center and has established technology transfer platforms such as Tianjin Polytechnic University Cangzhou Research Institute and Tianjin Polytechnic University Shaoxing Keqiao Research Institute in collaboration with local governments.

The university has been vigorously promoting the opening up of education in the new era. It has established good cooperative relations with over 110 institutions in more than 60 countries and regions including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and has carried out international talent cultivation, high-end expert introduction, international academic exchanges and scientific and technological cooperation. It has been approved for various talent and international cooperation programs funded by the China Scholarship Council, the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Education, including the Innovative Talent International Cooperation Training Program. In response to the national Belt and Road Initiative, we joined the European Textile University Association and the Eurasian Pacific Academic Association and established the country's only Confucius Institute in Burkina Faso. As a recipient of Chinese government scholarships for international students, the university enrolls international students from over 70 countries, implements the reform of the credit system for international student education, builds an international base for the inheritance and innovation of Chinese fine traditional culture and skills and an overseas internship and practice base, and strengthens Chinese language education and the international dissemination of Chinese fine traditional culture.

The school is actively promoting cultural inheritance and innovation. The school has strengthened its campus culture construction, fully exerted the educational role of culture, and has been rated as a "National Civilized Unit", one of the first batch of "Civilized Campuses" in Tianjin, an "Advanced Institution in the Ten-Year Socialization Reform of University Logistics in China", and selected as one of the first batch of training bases for inheritors of Chinese intangible cultural heritage by the Ministry of Culture.

A peach or plum tree needs no words to attract people to its path. Focus on national strategies such as the Belt and Road Initiative and the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, adhere to moral education, adhere to cultivating talents for the Party and the country, adhere to reform and innovation, strive to build a "Double First-Class" high-level university with Chinese characteristics, and make new and greater contributions to building a strong country in higher education and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

(Data as of September 2025)