Tianjin University of Science and Technology

Introduction to Tianjin University of Science and Technology

Tianjin University of Science and Technology, located on the coast of the Bohai Sea and beside the Haihe River, is a multi-disciplinary university with engineering as its main focus and coordinated development of engineering, science, liberal arts, economics, management, law and art. Tianjin University of Science and Technology was founded in 1958 as Hebei Institute of Light Industry and was renamed Tianjin University of Science and Technology in 2002. The university now offers 62 undergraduate programs, 43 master's programs and 17 doctoral programs in 18 colleges. There are nearly 27,000 full-time undergraduate, master's and doctoral students.

School Facilities
Tianjin University of Science and Technology now has three campuses in Hexi, Taida and Tanggu, covering a total area of 1,533,200 square meters and a total building area of 745,900 square meters. The library has a collection of 2.4378 million books; Total value of teaching and research equipment: 430 million yuan; Sports venues and specialized training facilities are complete; A high level of campus network is built; International student apartments are well-equipped with all kinds of living facilities.

Subject Specialties
Tianjin University of Science and Technology has a national key discipline in fermentation engineering, four national characteristic specialties, seven provincial and ministerial key disciplines, and three Tianjin Key Disciplines. Based on key disciplines, a number of nationally leading characteristic disciplines and specialties have been formed, including bio-fermentation, food science and engineering, paper engineering, Marine science and engineering, chemical engineering, packaging engineering, and polymer materials and engineering.

The university has one national engineering laboratory - the National and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Metabolic Control Fermentation Technology and the only national New Rural development Research institute in Tianjin, two key laboratories of the Ministry of Education - Food Nutrition and Safety and Industrial Fermentation microbiology, and one engineering research center for food biotechnology of the Ministry of Education. Two national engineering laboratories, industrial enzymes and pulp and paper, are jointly built with the Chinese Academy of Sciences and other institutions. Five Tianjin key laboratories, one Tianjin engineering laboratory and four Tianjin engineering centers have been established. 1 Tianjin Collaborative Innovation Center for Food Safety and Low-carbon Manufacturing and 1 Tianjin Key Research Base for Humanities and Social Sciences in Regular Universities - Tianjin University of Science and Technology Food Safety Management and Strategy Research Center.

Faculty strength and teaching
Tianjin University of Science and Technology has a well-structured faculty that is academically strong, innovative and in line with the school's development. The university has 2,291 staff members, including 473 doctoral and master's supervisors and 769 professors and associate professors. The school adheres to the motto of Virtue, Learning and Practice, Patriotism, Love for the School and People, and has always been committed to the principle of putting people first and moral education first, and has been steadily advancing quality-oriented education.

Research strength and achievements

In recent years, the school has consecutively won 7 national science and technology awards and 35 provincial and ministerial science and technology awards. The number of research projects has been on the rise. The National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Distinguished Young Scholars Program, NSFC Key Program, NSFC Social Science Program, NSFC International (Regional) Cooperation Program, and the National Science and Technology Program led by Chief scientists have all achieved zero breakthroughs. The number of science and technology platforms has continued to rise, reaching 21 at or above the provincial and ministerial level.

International cooperation has expanded. The university has hosted more than 30 international academic exchange conferences and invited foreign experts to give more than 200 lectures. Successfully hosted the 2014 Summer Davos Forum for Young Scientists from China and Abroad in Tianjin. The university, in collaboration with the French National School of Pharmacy and Paris VI University, established the Sino-French Joint Laboratory of Food Nutrition and Safety and Medicinal Chemistry.

International exchange
The school has always adhered to an open and international approach to education and has established cooperative exchange relations with more than 80 universities and research institutions in over 30 countries including the United States, Japan, Australia, Canada and Finland, and regularly conducts cooperative research and student exchanges.

The school attaches great importance to international cooperation. On the basis of the China-Us program, it has added the China-Australia, China-Japan and China-UK programs and signed 1+2+1, 2+23+2 agreements with foreign universities such as the University of California, the University of Georgia, the University of Ottawa, Nagasaki University and the University of Lodz in Poland.

Every year, the school selects outstanding students to study abroad. So far, nearly a thousand students have participated in various long-term and short-term exchange and study activities abroad, greatly expanding students' international horizons. The work of international students in China has been steadily improving. In 2009, the school officially became an institution accepting Chinese government scholarships for international students, forming a complete education system for foreign students from language teaching to undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral degree education. The School of Economics and Management and the School of Bioengineering offer English-taught programs for international students. In addition, the school has established fixed annual student exchange programs with institutions such as the Technical University of Monterrey in Mexico and Ngee Ann Polytechnic in Singapore. Since 2001, more than 3,000 international students from over 80 countries have come to the school for long and short exchange programs. In 2014, our university established a Confucius Institute in collaboration with Assumption University of Thailand to promote the Chinese language internationally.