Tongji University

With one heart and one mind, we will work together to help people and the world!

Tongji University has a long history and an outstanding reputation. It is one of the earliest national universities in China. It is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education and co-built with Shanghai. After 114 years of development, Tongji University has become a comprehensive, research-oriented, international university with distinctive characteristics and great influence at home and abroad. Its comprehensive strength ranks among the top domestic universities.

The school began in 1907 when German doctor Erich Paulung founded the Tongji German Medical School with the support of the Chinese and German governments and all sectors of society. In 1912, it was jointly named Tongji German Medical School with the Tongji German School of Engineering, which had just been established. In 1917, it was taken over by Chinese people and renamed Tongji Medical School and Private Tongji Medical School. It was named Tongji University in 1923 and became a national university in 1927. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War in 1937, Tongji University moved six times, and moved to Shanghai, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Yunnan and other places. In 1940, it moved to the ancient town of Lizhuang in Yibin, Sichuan and continued to run schools. After moving back to Shanghai in 1946, it developed into a comprehensive university known for its five colleges of science, engineering, medicine, liberal arts, and law.

In the national college and department adjustment that began in 1949, Tongji University's original advantageous disciplines such as liberal arts, law, medicine, science, machinery, electrical machinery, shipbuilding, and surveying and mapping either supported other universities or moved to the mainland as a whole. At the same time, civil engineering and architecture-related disciplines from more than 10 universities across the country gathered in Tongji, making it the largest and most comprehensive engineering university in the field of civil engineering in China. After 1978, the school implemented "two transformations" - resuming exchanges with Germany and transforming from closed schools to open schools, and expanding the scope of disciplines from an engineering university mainly focusing on civil engineering to a comprehensive university mainly focusing on science and engineering. In 1996, Shanghai Urban Construction Institute and Shanghai Building Materials Industry Institute were merged and listed as a national "211 Project" construction university. In 2000, it merged with Shanghai Railway University to form the new Tongji University. In 2002, it was listed as a national "985 Project" construction university. In 2003, Shanghai Aviation Industry School was transferred to the management of Tongji University. In 2004, it was listed as a central-level university. In 2017, it was listed as a Class A university for the construction of a national world-class university.

Tongji University has always regarded the cultivation of top-notch innovative talents as a lofty mission and responsibility, taking undergraduate education as the foundation of the school, graduate education as the way to strengthen the school, and moral education as the fundamental task. It insists on educating people in all aspects, throughout the process, and in all directions, and strives to make every student have the comprehensive characteristics of "general knowledge foundation, professional quality, innovative thinking, practical ability, global vision, and social responsibility" after learning and nurturing in college, and become a social pillar and professional elite who undertake the great task of national rejuvenation and lead the future. Since its founding, the university has trained more than 380,000 graduates, and has produced a large number of outstanding politicians, scientists, educators, social activists, entrepreneurs, medical experts and engineering and technical experts. Among the alumni, 168 people have been elected as academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Tongji University has built a number of major scientific research platforms, including the world's largest "Multi-functional Vibration Experiment Center", the first "Ground Transportation Wind Tunnel Center" in China, the first "Urban Rail Transit Comprehensive Test Platform" in China, the first "Undersea Long-term Scientific Observation System" in China, and the "Shanghai Autonomous Intelligent Unmanned System Science Center" and "Cell Stemness and Fate Editing Science Center". It has undertaken a series of major national projects and major engineering scientific research, and has achieved landmark scientific research results such as key technologies for large-span bridges, structural earthquake resistance and disaster prevention technologies, intelligent induction of urban transportation, urban sewage treatment, new energy vehicle research and development, localized intelligent greenhouses, remote sensing space information, ocean drilling, and molecular genetics of atrial fibrillation.

The school has long focused on giving play to the spillover effects of advantageous disciplines and basic research, continuously expanding the forms and fields of social services, actively contributing to the development of national and local social construction, and providing strong scientific and technological support for major strategic needs such as the construction of the "Belt and Road", domestic bridges and tunnels, railways and urban rail transit, water environment governance, earthquake relief, Yangshan Deepwater Port, Shanghai World Expo, Chongming Ecological Island, Xiong'an New Area, and Beijing Urban Sub-Center. The school and local governments jointly promoted the construction of the "Tongji Knowledge Economy Circle", and the output value has grown from less than 3 billion yuan in 2005 to 49.5 billion yuan in 2020, creating a model of school-local cooperation of "three-zone integration and linkage development".

The school actively expands international cooperation. On the basis of cooperation mainly with Germany, it has developed into a layout centered on cooperation with Europe, expanding North America and radiating Asia and Africa. It has successively established 12 international cooperation platform colleges such as China-Germany, China-France, China-Italy, China-Finland, China-Spain, and the United Nations, signed cooperation agreements with more than 200 overseas universities, and co-built research centers with many multinational companies such as Volkswagen, Siemens, Bayer and IBM. The school has initiated and established the "China Green University Alliance" and the "International Green Campus Alliance" and served as the first chairman. It was elected as the chairman of the United Nations Environment Program Global Environment and Sustainable Development University Cooperation Alliance. It is the first university in the Asia-Pacific region to be awarded the "Global Sustainable Campus Excellence Award".

At present, Tongji University has 29 professional colleges, 11 affiliated hospitals, and 13 affiliated primary and secondary schools. There are 4 main campuses, including Siping Road, Jiading, Huxi and Hubei, covering an area of ​​about 2.56 square kilometers, with a total building area of ​​more than 1.84 million square meters and a total library collection of more than 4.55 million books.

The school currently has 18,514 full-time undergraduates, 11,319 master's students, and 7,265 doctoral students. There are also 2,088 international students. There are 2,792 full-time teachers, including 1,096 senior professional and technical positions, 15 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (including dual appointments), 23 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (including dual appointments), and 24 foreign academicians of the Academy of Sciences of the Developing World and the Academy of Sciences or Engineering of the United States, Germany, Sweden and other countries. There are 5 national-level teaching masters, 42 specially appointed (special post) professors of the "Changjiang Scholars Award Program" of the Ministry of Education, 23 chief scientists of the National Key Basic Research and Development Program, 101 chief scientists of the National Key R&D Program, and 205 outstanding young talents in four categories, including "Young Changjiang" and "Outstanding Young Science Fund Winners". There are 7 national-level teaching teams, 9 National Natural Science Foundation innovation groups, 12 "Innovation Team Development Plan" of the Ministry of Education, 1 innovation team in key areas of the Ministry of Science and Technology, and it has been selected as the "National Demonstration Base for the Training of Innovative Talents" of the Ministry of Science and Technology.

The school's disciplines cover 10 categories, including engineering, science, medicine, management, economics, philosophy, literature, law, education, and art. There are 82 undergraduate majors, 44 first-level master's degree authorization points, 27 professional master's degree authorization points, 34 first-level doctoral degree authorization points, 9 professional doctoral degree authorization points, and 30 postdoctoral mobile stations. It has 3 national key laboratories, 1 national engineering laboratory, 1 national major scientific and technological infrastructure, 1 national collaborative innovation center, 1 national large-scale scientific instrument center, 5 national engineering (technology) research centers, 6 other national research platforms and 77 provincial and ministerial research platforms.

"Tongji is the world, advocating science, leading innovation, and pursuing excellence". Today's Tongji University is moving towards the goal of "walking with the motherland, using science and education to help the world, and building a world-class university with Chinese characteristics"!