Tianjin Chengjian University (TCU), foundedin 1978, is a regular university under the administration of Tianjin Municipalgovernment. To serve the urbanization and urbanmodernization of China ,TCU has constructed a mutually supportive, coordinately developing disciplinarysystem, consisting of seven discipline groups of urban planning andarchitecture, urban construction, urban ecology and environment, urbaneconomics and management, digital city, and urban culture.

TCU consists of fourteen schools, one department for basic courses, one teachingcenter and one college for continuing education, with over 900 full-timeteachers out of over 1,300 faculty.  Programs and Students          TCU provides 54 undergraduate programs insix disciplines of engineering, science, management, economics, arts andhumanities. As a member of National Excellent Engineer Training Program, TCUoffers project-based, skilled oriented ‘trial run’ for engineering students, tobroaden their horizons, re-enforce their knowledge foundation, and enhancetheir capabilities.

TCU provides 30 graduate programs for academic master degree in threedisciplines of engineering, science and management. In addition, TCU offersfive graduate programs for professional master degree in two subjects ofengineering and landscape architecture.

Currently, TCU has more than 17,400 full-time students, including 16,500undergraduates and 900 graduates.  Platforms and Research          TCU has set up a series of platforms forscientific research, technological innovation and industrial cooperation,including one engineering research center of the Ministry of Education of China , and two key laboratories, threeengineering research centers, one key research base for humanities and socialsciences, one collaborative innovation center on green building of TianjinMunicipal and so on.

TCU implements the strategy of ‘Research-driven development’, emphasizingfundamental research and highlighting specialties, which leads to theconsiderable increase in technological innovation and quality. The significantachievements include over 100 projects respectively sponsored by the NationalBasic 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 covermore than 30 universities from four continents. TCU has obtained the approvalof 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 DisasterPrevention and Mitigation.

TCU has international students from Russia , Singapore , Indonesia etc.,who play an important role in enriching the intellectual and social life of thecampus.  Motto and Goal         The motto of TCU is to ‘Morality andCapability, Learning and Creating’. 

      The developing goal of TCU is to become a university with distinctcharacteristics and global perspective.