Tongji University Tongji University, for short, is a national key university directly under the Ministry of education of the people's Republic of China, jointly built by the Ministry of education, the State Oceanic Administration and Shanghai Municipality; it is a sub ministerial institution directly under the central government, a national "world-class university construction university", a national "211 Project" and "985 Project" construction university; it is selected into the national "Everest plan", "strong foundation plan" and "2011 plan" ”"111 plan", excellent engineer education and training plan, excellent legal personnel education and training plan, excellent doctor education and training plan, National College Students' innovative experiment plan, national construction of high-level university public postgraduate project, Chinese government scholarship receiving institutions in China, National College Students' innovation and entrepreneurship training plan, national innovative talents training demonstration project Base, new engineering research and practice project, national model universities for deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education reform, Sino US "10 + 10" plan, the first batch of degree authorization independent audit units, the chairman unit of the global university cooperation alliance for environment and sustainable development of the United Nations Environment Programme, the international alliance of design and art colleges, the 21st century The predecessor of Tongji University is German medical school founded by German doctor Erich Baolong in Shanghai in 1907; it was renamed Tongji German medical school in 1908; Tongji German medical school was jointly called Tongji German medical school in 1912 with the newly founded Tongji German medical school; Tongji University was officially named in 1923; it became national Tongji University in 1927, which is one of the earliest seven national universities in China.As of November 2019, the university has 29 professional colleges and 8 affiliated hospitals. The four campuses cover an area of 3810 mu, with a total construction area of more than 1.81 million square meters. There are 18115 full-time undergraduates, 12105 postgraduates and 5766 doctoral students. There are also 3575 international students.