Tianjin University, referred to as "Tianda", is located in Tianjin city. Its predecessor is Beiyang University, which was founded on October 2, 1895. It is the first modern university in China. In 1951, Beiyang University merged with Hebei Institute of technology and named it "Tianjin University". It is a comprehensive high-level research university with a good reputation at home and abroad.Tianjin University is one of the first batch of 16 national key universities determined by the CPC Central Committee in 1959. It is directly under the Ministry of education and under the direct management of the central government. It is a University jointly built by the Ministry of education, Tianjin city and the State Oceanic Administration. It is also one of the first batch of key construction universities of "world-class university class a", the first batch of "211 Project" and "985 Project", and 10 engineering education reform universities of the Chinese Academy of engineering and the Ministry of education As one of the pilot universities, it is one of the first batch of degree authorization independent audit units and selected into the national "2011 plan" and "111 plan" "Excellent engineer education and training plan", National College Students' innovative experimental plan, national construction of high-level university public postgraduate project, new engineering research and practice project, the first batch of Universities' scientific and technological achievements transformation and technology transfer base, National College Students' cultural quality education base, the first batch of national innovation and entrepreneurship education reform demonstration universities, Chinese government scholarship As one of the "eight old schools of architecture", it is a founding member of the alliance of outstanding universities, the international alliance of new engineering By the end of December 2019, Weijin road campus covers a total area of 1.362 million square meters, beiyangyuan campus covers a total area of 2.436 million square meters, and Binhai Industrial Research Institute campus covers a total area of 309 thousand square meters; there are 36900 full-time students: 19177 undergraduates, 12966 postgraduates, 4757 doctoral students; 5066 staff; 72 undergraduate majors, 39 first-class disciplines There are 29 first-class doctoral programs and 25 mobile post doctoral research stations.