Tianjin Foreign Studies University

Tianjin Foreign Studies University (TFSU) is one of the eight earliest independent foreign language universities in China, with foreign language and literature as the dominant discipline, literature, economics, management, law, education, art, engineering and other disciplines coordinated development and distinctive characteristics. In 1921, Tianjin Industrial and Commercial University, one of the predecessor of the University, was established in Machang road. Later, it was renamed as Jingu University, Hebei University, etc. In 1964, under the kind care of Premier Zhou Enlai, Qinhuangdao Foreign Language College (later renamed Tianjin Foreign Language College) was established. In 1974, Tianjin Foreign Language College was reorganized from the academic strength and teachers of the former Tianjin Foreign Language College, the former Tianjin foreign language school, the former Japanese major of Tianjin Normal University, and the former foreign language and Chinese major of Hebei University. In 2010, it was renamed Tianjin Foreign Studies University with the approval of the Ministry of education.

The school has two campuses, Machang road and Binhai, with a total area of 1040.06 mu. Machangdao campus is located in the center of the city. Most of the buildings in the campus are of Western European classical style, with elegant shape and clean and quiet campus environment. It is one of the ten landmark buildings in Tianjin. Binhai campus is located in Dagang higher education ecological park of Binhai New Area, with beautiful lake and beautiful scenery. The school has 16 teaching units: Graduate School, College of advanced translation, Institute of quest for honor, College of English, College of Japanese, European Institute of language and culture, College of Asian and African languages, School of international business, School of international media, School of foreign law and politics, School of international exchange, School of continuing education, teaching department of basic courses, teaching department of Ideological and political courses, teaching center of Applied Foreign Languages and Teaching Department of physical education . Among them, the Advanced Institute of translation is a high-level translation talent reserve center, which aims to serve the high-end government translation while cultivating master's talents in simultaneous interpretation and translation. Qiusuo honorary college is a pilot project of Tianjin education system reform. It is a pilot unit to highlight the characteristics of running a school, teach students in accordance with their aptitude and cultivate international compound top-notch talents.

The university is one of the first batch of master's degree awarding units approved by the State Council. At present, the university has one doctoral talent training program (foreign language and literature discipline) serving the special needs of the country, four first-class disciplines (foreign language and literature, Chinese language and literature, theoretical economics, management science and Engineering) and 22 master's degrees Authorized two-level discipline points, four (translation, journalism and communication, international business, Chinese International Education) Master's degree authorization points. Foreign language and literature, the first level discipline of Chinese language and literature and the second level discipline of world economy and foreign philosophy are the key disciplines in Tianjin. The university has the qualification of recommending excellent undergraduate graduates to study for master's degree without examination, and also has the qualification of recruiting personnel with the same academic level to apply for master's degree and foreign students to study for master's degree.

At present, the university has 36 undergraduate majors, namely English, Japanese, Russian, Korean (Korean), Spanish, German, French, Arabic, Italian, Portuguese, Swahili, Indonesian, Burmese, Malay, translation, business English, foreign Chinese, international economy and trade, finance, law, educational technology, information management and information technology Information system, journalism, administration, international politics, Chinese language and literature, economics, human resource management, marketing, financial management, accounting, advertising, communication, tourism management, animation, digital media technology. Among them, there are 4 national characteristic majors, 1 national undergraduate comprehensive reform pilot project, 1 national teaching team and 2 national excellent courses. There are 9 brand majors in Tianjin, 4 strategic emerging industry related majors in Tianjin, and 2 undergraduate comprehensive reform pilot projects in Tianjin.

The school has excellent teachers and more than 1000 staff, including more than 700 full-time teachers. Nearly 50% of full-time teachers have overseas study experience, and more than 90% of some majors. The school employs more than 100 foreign experts and teachers all the year round. Adhering to the school motto of "seeking from home and abroad, competing in morality and industry", the university is committed to cultivating high-quality international talents with independent learning ability and cross-cultural communication ability. At present, there are nearly ten thousand full-time students and more than one thousand graduate students in 29 provinces, cities and autonomous regions.

The university has established the central literature translation research base, the Latin American Research Center, the regional and national research and cultivation base of the Ministry of education, the foreign language, literature and Culture Research Center, the Tianjin Institute for international development, the key research base of Humanities and Social Sciences in Tianjin universities, and the application and communication of language symbols, the key research base of Humanities and Social Sciences in Tianjin universities Relying on the platform system, the University, together with the compilation and Translation Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, the national science and technology terminology examination and Approval Committee, Nankai University, University of foreign economic relations and trade, and PLA Foreign Languages College, has jointly established the collaborative innovation center of "Central Literature Translation and dissemination".

The University attaches great importance to and actively carries out academic and cultural exchanges with foreign countries, and has established friendly cooperative relations with more than 80 universities and educational organizations in 30 countries in the world. The university has six overseas Confucius Institutes in shuntianxiang University of South Korea, Lisbon University of Portugal, Toulouse First University of France, Volgograd National Normal University of Russia, Tadeo University of Columbia and Kiev National Language University of Ukraine. It is one of the first batch of full-time teachers reserve schools of Confucius Institutes determined by the Confucius Institute headquarters / national Hanban. The university has been exploring the international cooperation mode of "3 + 1", "2 + 2" and "4 + 1", sending a large number of Chinese students to study abroad every year, and receiving students from all over the world for long-term and short-term learning of Chinese and Chinese culture. At present, there are students from 44 countries all over the world studying in school.

There are 1 municipal laboratory, 3 municipal experimental teaching demonstration centers, 14 professional laboratories, 43 language laboratories, 4 sets of international standard simultaneous interpretation lecture hall, 25 sets of international satellite TV receiving system in 11 languages and campus computer network covering two districts. The school is rich in learning resources. The two campus libraries cover an area of nearly 14000 square meters, with a collection of more than 1.2 million books and more than 1600 Chinese and foreign newspapers and magazines. In particular, 180 kinds of documents have not been collected in the National Library of China, so they are rare and of great cultural value. The university has nearly 70 kinds of Chinese and foreign databases, and the foreign English Resource Retrieval Center has become the authoritative shared resource in the field of teaching and research of related disciplines in China. The school sports facilities are perfect, with standard sports ground, football field, tennis court, basketball court, volleyball court and other sports facilities, and a comprehensive gymnasium of more than 10000 square meters.

The university has sponsored Journal of Tianjin Foreign Studies University, an important academic journal of foreign language and literature research; foreign language audio and video publishing house is the only university publishing unit in Tianjin that has won the national publishing fund for three consecutive times; world culture magazine has a wide and fixed readership, and has jointly contributed to the dissemination of the world's national cultures and the promotion of cross-cultural exchanges.

Over the years, relying on the advantages of disciplines and specialties and the characteristics of international education, the university has actively served the Beijing Olympic Games, Shanghai World Expo, summer Davos forum and other major national and Tianjin activities, and won many honors such as "outstanding contribution award of China's translation cause". The volunteer service activities characterized by foreign language service have won the honorary titles of "China's top 100 volunteer service group" and "Tianjin excellent brand project of spiritual civilization construction".

Through the hard work of several generations of tianwai people, the school has developed into an important base for foreign language and export-oriented talents training in Tianjin and even the whole country, as well as an important base for spreading multi culture, and gradually established the "tianwai" brand in the field of foreign language education in China. The school will continue to adhere to the "people-oriented, characteristic development" school philosophy, in accordance with the "characteristic development to promote connotation development, promote harmonious development" strategic policy, continue to make the language stronger, bigger abroad, and strive to build a high-level foreign studies university with distinctive characteristics, which is influential in China and well-known abroad.

Tianjin Foreign Studies University

Nature of institutions: public

Education level: General Undergraduate

Location: Tianjin

Enrollment telephone: 022-23247377

mail box: tyzhaoban@tjfsu.edu.cn

Admission website: http://www.tjfsu.edu.cn/