Tiangong University (), formerly Tianjin Polytechnic University, is a municipal public university in Tianjin, China. The university is now sponsored by Tianjin Municipal People's Government. The university was first established in 1958 as Hebei Textile Institute (). After several reorganizations, the university finally renamed to its current Chinese name in 2000. The English name used by the university from 2000 to 2019 was Tianjin Polytechnic University, despite the consistency of its Chinese name. The university currently has fourteen colleges and two campuses in Tianjin. The traditional campus is located in Hedong District, and the new campus is located in Xiqing District. The university is listed as a first-class discipline construction university by the Ministry of Education of China.

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Tiangong University (TGU) is a state-run full-time institution of higher education, which is jointly established by the Ministry of Education and the Tianjin Municipal Government. In 2003, TGU received outstanding marks in the “Undergraduate Program Evaluation” sponsored by

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. The 460-acre new campus has been completed in the scenic spot of Xiqing District since 2006. The university has a long history, with its earliest departments established in 1912. TGU is a multidisciplinary teaching and researching university, which offers undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in science and engineering, arts, liberal arts, management, economics，law, and languages. The university consists of 16 schools, offering bachelor, master, and doctor degrees in 60 undergraduate programs, 78 master's degree programs, and 16 doctoral degree programs. The university also holds 3 postdoctoral research stations. Now more than 28,000 full-time students study here, of which almost 3000 postgraduates. Currently, there are 1,600 full-time teachers and more than 800 administrative staff in TGU, of whom more than 800 are professors and associate professors. TGU has also specially engaged over 20 academicians from the

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, the

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, and renowned foreign scholars as visiting scholars and part-time professors. TGU is the frontrunner in China in the scientific research on textile composite materials, hollow fiber membrane separating technology, special functional fiber materials, textile oiling agent, semiconductor lighting, and production of electromechanical equipment integration, etc. The subject of textile engineering always ranks Top 2 in China. The university has over 60 research institutions in cooperation with some famous enterprises, including Motian Membrane Science and Technology Company, Functional Fiber Development Centre, etc. TGU has more than 80 partner universities in more than 30 countries. Now there are about 1700 overseas students one year studying

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, Textiles, Fashion design, Computer, Accounting, Art design, and so forth in TGU. TGU is now taking great initiative in meeting the needs of the educational development in the 21st century and the economic construction in China and has become one of China's best universities in science and technology.

Schools and Faculties

* School of

International Education International education refers to a dynamic concept that involves a journey or movement of people, minds, or ideas across political and cultural frontiers. It is facilitated by the globalization phenomenon, which increasingly erases the constrai ...

* School of Textiles Science and

Engineering Engineering is the use of scientific principles to design and build machines, structures, and other items, including bridges, tunnels, roads, vehicles, and buildings. The discipline of engineering encompasses a broad range of more speciali ...

* School of Electrical Engineering and Automation * School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering * School of Electronics and Information Engineering * School of Materials Science and Engineering * School of

Computer science Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to practical disciplines (includi ...

and Technology * School of

Economics Economics () is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics analyzes ...

* School of Mechanical Engineering * School of

Arts The arts are a very wide range of human practices of creative expression, storytelling and cultural participation. They encompass multiple diverse and plural modes of thinking, doing and being, in an extremely broad range of media. Both ...

* School of Management * School of Graduate * School of

Science Science is a systematic endeavor that Scientific method, builds and organizes knowledge in the form of Testability, testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earli ...

* School of Laws * School of

Humanities Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture. In the Renaissance, the term contrasted with divinity and referred to what is now called classics, the main area of secular study in universities at the t ...

* school of Life Sciences

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