Tongji University has a long history and an outstanding reputation. It is one of the earliest national universities in China and a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education and jointly established with Shanghai. After 1 14 years of development, Tongji University has become a comprehensive, research-oriented and international university with distinctive features and great influence at home and abroad, and its comprehensive strength ranks among the top universities in China.

The school has long paid attention to the spillover effect of superior disciplines and basic research, constantly expanded the forms and fields of social services, actively contributed to the development of national and local social construction, and provided strong scientific and technological support for major strategic needs such as the Belt and Road Initiative, domestic bridges and tunnels, railway and urban rail transit, water environment management, earthquake relief, and the construction of xiong'an new area and Beijing city sub-centers.

The school actively expands international cooperation. Based on the cooperation with Germany, it has developed into a layout focusing on cooperation with Europe, expanding North America and radiating Asia and Africa. It has successively established 12 international cooperation platforms such as China-Germany, China-France, Italy, China-Finland, China and the West, and the United Nations, signed cooperation agreements with more than 200 overseas universities, and jointly established research centers with many multinational companies such as Volkswagen, Siemens, Bayer and IBM.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Tongji University