Tianjin University of Commerce was established in 1980. After two decades of construction and development, it has become an advanced university with undergraduate and postgraduate education specialising in economics, stration, engineering, law, liberal arts and science.
The University is located by the Ziya River in Tianjin and covers an area of 600,000 m2 including 500,000 m2 of teaching and dormitory space.The campus is clean and tidy with first-rate facilities providing excellent conditions for working, studying and researching. The university is divided into 13 Schools (Management School, Economics and Trade School, Machinery
Engineering School, Bio-Technology and Food Tahnology School, Law and Politics School, Information Engineering School, Tourism Management School, Foreign Languages School,Science School,International Education School, Advanced Vocational Technology School, Continuing Education School, Boustead Vocational Technology School) and 4 teaching departments (Basic Courses Teaching Department, School English Teaching Department, Physical Education and Health Teaching Department, and Ideology and Politics Teaching Department). The School arc composed of departments and teaching sections. The university has 12 Master degree programs and 33 undergraduate programs, the enrollment of professional training graduates, undergraduates and postgraduates being over 15,000. The university has adopted a multi-level, multi-faceted approach to education. The University offers advanced vocational technology courses, advanced self-study courses and various junior Schools, training and correspondence courses. The teaching, research and administration staff of the university are first-rate. There are 300 professors, vice professors, research fellows, engineers, and 500 lecturers and assistant lecturers in the university.
During the last 3 years, the university has taken 50 important scientific research projects at national or provincial levels, published 215 teaching materials and 3,000 theses,20 of which have been cited by SCI,. Nearly 100 staff members have exchanged their teaching or scientific achievements in academic conferences at home or abroad. The library of the university has a total building space of 10,000 m2 with a collection of 1,430,000 books in Chinese and other languages and 1,800 periodicals. The library can seat 1,000 people and there is also an electronic reading room, in which 12 databases in Chinese and foreign languages are available for teachers and students to read and refer to.