Founded in 1976, Tianjin Agricultural University merged with Urban and Rural Economy College of Tianjin,and was approved by Tianjin Municipal Government in 2001. The university has the authority to grant bachelor’s degree since 1982 and master’s degree since 2006. After passing the Ministry of Education’s (MOE) undergraduate evaluation in 1996, the university received a further outstanding assessment from MOE in 2007.
The university takes agriculture as the main subject, and develops engineering, management, science, economics, literature and art in a coordinated way. After years of running practice, it has formed a distinctive running characteristics closely following regional economic and social development and serving modern urban agriculture.
The university has three campuses, with the campus covering an area of 1,292 mu(about 86.1 hectares) and a build-up area of 380,000 square meterswith modern buildings, laboratories, libraries, network center and sports stadiums. There are currently 12,508 students in the university.
In keeping with its strategy of “upgrading the university with quality, talents, specialties and culture”,Tianjin Agricultural Universityplaces impetus on constructing disciplinesas its core focus, and is consistently improving the quality of talent cultivation. The university offers 15 colleges, 7 disciplines, 45 undergraduate majors, 8 higher vocational education programs, 9 first-level discipline academic master degrees, and 3 master professional degrees.In 2017, the university was approved as Tianjin 2017-2020 project construction (cultivation) university for doctoral degree authorization unit, and three first-level disciplines of crop science, veterinary medicine and aquatic products were authorized as the doctoral degree construction disciplines. There are 1 municipal first-class discipline, 4 municipal key disciplines, 5 municipal characteristic discipline groups and 1 national college students off-campus practice education base. There are 7 municipal high quality courses, and 7 municipal brand majors. In the recent two teaching achievement awards, the university won 13 municipalteaching achievement awards, including 5 first prizes and 8 second prizes.
The university actively adapts to the needs of regional economic and social development and modern urban agriculture development, rationally adjusts the curriculum system, and gradually forms a more reasonable professional ecological group that supports the development of modern agriculture. In the context of popular education, the university roots in the Jingu soil, and focuses on combining production and research. In recent years, employment rate of graduates has reached 90%, a leading level among similar institutes. Many organizations have commented on the modesty, pragmatism, hard-work and loyalty of the university’s graduates. More than 50,000 graduates at all levels have passed out from the university, and a large number of well-known agricultural science and technology talents, education experts, excellent management experts and leading cadres have emerged.
The university vigorously implemented the strategy of“strengthening talents”and established a high-level teaching and research team.Among the 1000 staff present, there are 4 double-hired academicians, 19 experts with special government subsidies under the State Council, 1 leading talent of National Ten Thousand Talents Program, 1 national excellent teacher, 8 candidates of Tianjin Thousand Talents Program, 10 municipal outstanding teachers, 1 Tianjin outstanding contribution expert, 12 candidates of the first level of Tianjin "131" innovative talents training project. The university has 11 municipal-level teaching teams.
Tianjin Agricultural University insists on promoting teaching through scientific research, and its academic level is constantly improved.It has set up 4national level scientific research and innovation platformsand 50 provincial and ministeriallevel platforms. In addition, the university also has 94 industry-university-research consortium, and with 11 companies jointly established Tianjin key laboratory of enterprise. In the past five years, the university has undertaken 902 science and technology projects at all levels, including 466 projects at the provincial and ministerial level. 1 achievement won the second prize of national science and technology progress award; 49 achievements won the provincial and ministerial awards, including 1 first prize of national agriculture, animal husbandry and fishery harvest award and 2 first prizes of Tianjin science and technology progress award. Tianjin Agricultural University Journal has won the National Outstanding Journal award several times, as well as the Tianjin First Grade Journal award. It is regarded as an important agricultural database by many publishers, both in China and overseas.
The university actively welcomes collaboration and partnerships, to enhance international exchanges and cooperation in running colleges, and has built friendly exchange relationships with more than 60 universities in 30 countries spread across the world, such as Germany, Ukraine, the Philippines, Japan, Canada and the United Kingdom, Thailand, Pakistan.
Tianjin agricultural universitynow stands at a new historical thresIhold. It will continue to uphold the ethos of "precise, pragmatic, unified and creative", the motto of "studious eagerness on exploration, willing diligence in cultivation", and carry forward the spirit of "dedication, hard work, unity and self-improvement".Under the guidance of XiJinpingThoughtonSocialismwithChineseCharacteristicsforaNewEra, the university is positively implementing the strategy of “upgrading the university with quality, talent, specialties and culture”. Based in Tianjin and radiating around the Bohai sea region, the university will take serving modern urban agriculture and boosting rural revitalization as its mission, make unremitting efforts for economic construction, social development and scientific and technological progress, and make steady progress towards the goal of building a high-level agricultural university with distinctive features and outstanding advantages.
(The statistical data as of September 1, 2019)
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The east campus: NO.22 Jinjing Road, Xiqing District, Tianjin 300384, China
The west campus: NO.19 Jintong Road, Xiqing District, Tianjin 300380, China
The Jizhou campus: Qingchi I Village, Wu Baihu Town, Jizhou District, Tianjin 301936, China
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