Tianjin Chengjian University (TCU), established in 1978, is a regular institute of higher education under the administration of Tianjin Municipal Government. As the fourth branch of Tianjin University, back to over forty years ago, it carried out undergraduate education with the support of Tianjin University. In 1979, it was named Architectural Branch of Tianjin University, and in 1987, was renamed as Tianjin Institute of Urban Construction, and then as Tianjin Chengjian University (TCU) in 2013.
Over the past 47 years, TCU sticks to the principle of “developing urban science and cultivating talents for urban construction”. By drawing on the advantages of related industries, highlighting its features, sticking to quality-oriented development and pursuing excellence, TCU fulfills the motto of “Morality and Capability, Learning and Creating”. Dedicated to new urbanization and urban modernization, TCU has developed the features of “focusing on urban construction, adhering closely to related industries, emphasizing the cultivation of morality and capability, and cultivating compound applied talents with both professional proficiency and personal integrity.
TCU is located at No.26, Jinjing Road, Xiqing District, Tianjin.TCU covers an area of 595,400m2, with a building area of 453,200m2, and its greening coverage rate reaches 41%. TCU has been awarded the title of Tianjin Harmonious Campus for many years consecutively. TCU consists of 15 schools, 2 teaching departments (centers) and 1 school of continuing education with more than 18,000 full-time students. TCU now has more than 1,400 staff members, including over 1,100 full-time faculties and over 400 of which have senior professional titles.
TCU attaches great importance to the all-round development of students’ morality, intelligence, sports, aesthetics and labor education. Under student-centered principle, TCU deepens education and teaching reform, and continuously improves the quality of talent training. Graduates of TCU are highly praised and appreciated by all sectors of society. TCU offers 55 undergraduate programs, among which there are 10 national first-rate programs, 14 Tianjin first-rate programs, 3 emerging engineering programs, 1 emerging interdisciplinary programs, 1 national featured program, 1 national and 2 Tianjin comprehensive reform pilot programs, 7 Tianjin branded programs, 5 Tianjin strategic emerging industries related programs, 8 Tianjin programs of advantage and characteristics, 12 Tianjin applied programs, 5 programs having passed the undergraduate professional evaluation(accreditation) of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of the People’s Republic of China. TCU has been approved of 5 national first-rate course, 47 Tianjin first-rate courses, 1 first-batch ideological demonstration course approved by the Ministry of Education, 12 Tianjin excellent courses, 15 ideological demonstration courses of Tianjin universities, 2 Tianjin ideological excellent courses, 4 Tianjin municipal branded courses in English for overseas students, 14 national and municipal key textbooks and 4 first-batch ideological excellent textbook of Tianjin universities. TCU owns 1 national level off campus practice base for college students, 10 Tianjin experimental teaching demonstration centers, 1 Tianjin virtual simulation experiment teaching center, 1 first-batch pilot project of Tianjin virtual teaching and research section, 1 collaborative innovation center of ideological theory courses of Tianjin universities, and 1 demonstration base of practical education of Tianjin universities, 5 graduate workstations for the integration of industry and education in Tianjin (including cultivation), 3 off campus innovation practice bases for graduate education in Tianjin universities, and 1 school of modern urban construction industry. TCU has 3 first-batch “Emerging Engineering” research and practice projects approved by the Ministry of Education and 1 first-batch “Emerging Liberal Arts” research and reform projects approved by the Ministry of Education. TCU has 15 Tianjin Outstanding Teachers and 18 Teaching Teams of Tianjin, TCU has also won 32 teaching achievement awards. TCU has made remarkable achievements in innovation and entrepreneurship in recent years. TCU has won over 600 municipal and ministerial science and technology awards in 2024, including 4 consecutive years of “Winner’s Cup” and the Excellent Organization Award in “Challenge Cup” competition in Tianjin and 6 Tianjin Excellent Organization Awards in various entrepreneurship and innovation competitions. 1 project has been selected for the 17th National College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Annual Conference; The TCU Maker Space has been awarded the title of Tianjin A-level (Excellent) University Maker Space for 8 consecutive years. In the past few years, the implementation rate of students' graduation destinations is over 90%, ranking among the top undergraduate universities of Tianjin.
Scientific and reasonable discipline layout, distinct disciplinary characteristics. TCU has developed 7 disciplinary clusters of urban planning, urban construction, urban management, eco-city, smart city, urban economy and urban culture. Now the university offers 13 first-level master programs and 12 professional master programs, 4 Tianjin featured disciplinary clusters and 6 Tianjin service industry featured disciplinary clusters, and 6 Tianjin key disciplines. Engineering Science, Environment/Ecology and Chemistry rank among ESl global top 1%, Civil Engineering, Environmental Science and Engineering are selected as Tianjin top-tier disciplines.
Scientific research and technology transfer ability continuously improving. TCU owns 33 science and technology platforms at or above municipal and ministerial level, including 1 National Engineering Research Center, 4 municipal and ministerial key laboratories, 8 municipal and ministerial engineering centers, 1 municipal and ministerial technology innovation center, 1 international joint research center, 1 base of humanities and social sciences, 1 university think tank, 1 municipal and ministerial think tank of scientific and technological innovation, 1 municipal and ministerial base of technology transfer, 2 municipal and ministerial collaborative innovation center, 1 strategic alliance, 8 Tianjin science base, and 3 Belt and Road collaborative laboratory. TCU carries out organized scientific research and establishes 4 interdisciplinary innovation research institutes. In recent 5 years, TCU has been awarded over 80 municipal and ministerial scientific and technological awards, and has been approved over 110 national scientific research projects and over 320 municipal and ministerial scientific research projects; has published 90 academic works and has obtained more than 200 invention patents. In 2024, TCU was approved national art fund and art talent training project for the first time. The average annual research fund is more than 120 million yuan in recent three years.
Capabilities of faculties continue to improve, number of high-level talents significantly increased. The number of advanced talents of TCU continues to increase. Among them, including 2 national engineering talents, 3 winners of the New Century Talents Funding Program of the Ministry of Education, 1 Tianjin Top Young Talent, 1 Tianjin Distinguished Professors, 3 Distinguished Young Scholars, 6 winners in the first-level of Tianjin 131 Talent Project, 4 winners for Five Batches Talents Project for publicity and culture in Tianjin, 1 winner for Young and Middle-aged Leading Talent in Scientific and Technological Innovation of Tianjin Talent Cultivation Plan, 3 winners for Outstanding Young Talent in Science and Technology, 3 winners of Funds for Distinguished Young Scholars of Tianjin, 1 winner for Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by CAST, 1 winner at the first level of Tianjin Young Science and Technology Talents, and 6 innovative teams of Tianjin universities and 2 innovation team in key areas of Tianjin Talent Promotion Plan, 1 innovative team at level B of Tianjin “Project +Team” , 1 innovative talent team of Tianjin 131 Talent Project, and 1 demonstration team of ideological education reform of Tianjin universities.
Expanding international engagement and cooperation, actively serving the “Belt and Road” construction. TCU has established partnership with 54 universities and institutions in 27 countries, and has established more than 40 international cooperation project platforms, with an average annual participation of over 1600 faculty and students in international exchanges. The undergraduate education project for engineering management with VIA University College in Denmark has conducted enrollments for 10 years consecutively, the program has passed the evaluations organized by Chinese Ministry of Education on Chinese-foreign cooperation in running schools twice in a row. TCU jointly established the “International School of Engineering at Tianjin Chengjian University(ISE)” with Cracow University of Technology and Bialystok University of Technology in Poland. ISE, the first Chinese-foreign cooperatively-run educational institution between China and Poland and the only Chinese-foreign cooperative education institution in Tianjin that offers undergraduate and graduate level education, was approved by the Ministry of Education in 2019. It has so far enrolled over 1500 students, and the first batch of graduates in 2024 had a high rate of 92% obtaining dual degrees from both domestic and foreign universities. TCU is the third municipal university in Tianjin to pass the quality certification for studying abroad in China by the Ministry of Education, and has trained more than 1200 long-term and short-term international students from 40 countries. TCU has participated in the construction of the Luban Workshop in Tajikistan, promoting a new model of vocational education integration and industry education integration. TCU was listed as one of model units in Tianjin for introducing overseas talents, and more than 100 national and provincial-level foreign expert introduction projects have been approved cumulatively. TCU jointly established The Joint Research Center for Protective Infrastructure Technology and Environmental Green Bioprocess and The Joint Research Centre for High Performance Civil Engineering Materials and Intelligent Construction Technology with Australian universities, and jointly established The Joint Research Center for Low Carbon Ratio, Energy-saving and Low-carbon Treatment of Municipal Sewage and The Joint Research Center for Green Building Functional Materials and Technology with Polish universities.
In the future, TCU will continue to improve the overall quality for talents’ cultivation and scientific and technological innovation ability, promote the high-quality intensive development of school undertakings, so as to accelerate the construction of a domestic first-class and internationally influential high level institution featuring urban construction.
(Statistics by December, 2024)