Tianjin
Chengjian University (TCU), founded in 1978, is a regular university
under the administration of Tianjin Municipal government. The city
Tianjin is one of four municipalities directly administered by the
Central Government of China, located south of and 120 km away from the
Capital of Beijing.
Disciplines and Faculty
To
serve the urbanization and urban modernization of China, TCU has
constructed a mutually supportive, coordinately developing disciplinary
system, consisting of six discipline groups of urban planning and
architecture, urban construction, urban ecology and environment, urban
economics and management, digital city, and urban culture.
TCU
consists of twelve schools, three departments for basic courses and one
college for continuing education, with over 900 full-time teachers out
of over 1,300 faculty.
Programs and Students
TCU
provides 51 undergraduate programs in six disciplines of engineering,
science, management, economics, arts and humanities. As a member of
National Excellent Engineer Training Program, TCU offers project-based,
skilled oriented ‘trial run’ for engineering students, to broaden their
horizons, re-enforce their knowledge foundation, and enhance their
capabilities.
TCU provides 30 graduate programs for academic master
degree in three disciplines of engineering, science and management. In
addition, TCU offers five graduate programs for professional master
degree in two subjects of engineering and landscape architecture.
Currently, TCU has more than 17,400 full-time students, including 16,500 undergraduates and 900 graduates.
Platforms and Research
TCU
has set up a series of platforms for scientific research, technological
innovation and industrial cooperation, including one engineering
research center of the Ministry of Education of China, and two key
laboratories, three engineering research centers, one key research base
for humanities and social sciences, one collaborative innovation center
on green building of Tianjin Municipal and so on.
TCU implements the
strategy of ‘Research-driven development’, emphasizing fundamental
research and highlighting specialties, which leads to the considerable
increase in technological innovation and quality. The significant
achievements include over 100 projects respectively sponsored by the
National Basic Research (973) Program, the National Key Technologies
R&D Program, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China
and so on.
Global Engagement
TCU’s
partnerships and agreements cover more than 30 universities from four
continents. TCU has obtained the approval of Ministry of Education of
China for the joint undergraduate program with VIA University College,
Denmark. Also TCU, joining with The University of Adelaide, Australia,
set up the Research Center for Disaster Prevention and Mitigation.
TCU
has international students from Russia, Singapore, Indonesia etc., who
play an important role in enriching the intellectual and social life of
the campus.
Motto and Goal
The motto of TCU is to ‘Morality and Capability, Learning and Creating’.
The developing goal of TCU is to become a university with distinct characteristics and global perspective.