Tianjin Medical University

Tianjin Medical University’s predecessor, Tianjin Medical College, was founded in 1951. It was a higher medical institution approved by the former Government Administration Council following the founding of the People’s Republic of China. The renowned endocrinologist and medical educator Professor Zhu Xianyi was its first president. In June 1994, Tianjin Medical College and Tianjin Second Medical College formally merged to establish Tianjin Medical University. In December 1996, it became Tianjin’s only municipally administered university receiving priority development under the national “211 Project.” In October 2015, it became jointly supported by the Tianjin Municipal People’s Government, National Health and Family Planning Commission and Ministry of Education. In September 2017, it was selected as a national first-class discipline development university.

Tianjin Medical University has actively contributed to higher medical education in China. It was one of the first two medical institutions authorized to pilot an eight-year program and one of the first 15 to pilot a seven-year program. It has 2 campuses, on Qixiangtai Road and Guangdong Road, and 6 university hospitals. It offers 21 undergraduate programs through 18 schools or departments and 2 teaching divisions. It has 9687 full-time undergraduate and higher-degree students, including 5162 undergraduates, 3089 master’s students, 465 doctoral students and 984 international degree students. Including its university hospitals, it has 8189 professional and technical personnel of various kinds, including 633 with full senior titles and 1072 with associate senior titles. Its main university has 669 full-time teachers.

It is authorized to award doctoral degrees in 7 first-level and 42 second-level disciplines, and master’s degrees in 11 first-level and 74 second-level disciplines. It has 6 postdoctoral research stations, 1034 master’s supervisors and 324 doctoral supervisors.

The university has 5 national distinctive programs, 1 national comprehensive program reform pilot, 2 national teaching teams, 13 Tianjin municipal teaching teams, 1 nationally distinguished teacher, 22 Tianjin municipal distinguished teachers, 7 national quality courses, 5 national quality resource-sharing courses, 3 national quality open video courses, 3 national bilingual demonstration courses, 8 Ministry of Education branded English-taught courses for international students in China, 3 national experimental zones for innovative talent training models, 3 national experimental teaching demonstration centers, 2 national extracurricular innovation practice bases for university students, and 74 national undergraduate innovation and entrepreneurship training projects. In both 2002 and 2008, it passed the Ministry of Education’s evaluations of undergraduate teaching and seven-year higher medical education with excellent results. In 2012, 2013 and 2014, respectively, it passed Ministry of Education accreditation in nursing and stomatology and international accreditation in clinical medicine. Since 2009, it has received 1 first prize and 1 second prize in the National Teaching Achievement Awards and 6 first prizes in municipal teaching achievement awards.

The university formally established the International College of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine in 1997, renaming it the International Medical School in 2010. Its international students come from 91 countries, and its international education ranks among the leading medical universities in China in both scale and quality. Its project, “Establishment and Practice of an All-English Teaching and Quality Assurance System for International Students in Clinical Medicine,” received a first prize in the National Teaching Achievement Awards. The Ministry of Education recognized the university as the first English-language faculty training center for international student education in China in medicine.

The university has established academic exchange and cooperation relationships with 96 universities and research institutions in 22 countries. It carries out high-level international cooperation in medicine and biomedicine and has engaged 119 world-renowned medical experts and professors as honorary or visiting professors across its disciplines. It has established a “Foreign Experts Advisory Committee” to promote internationalization.