The National Open University, formerly known as the Central Radio and TV University, was founded in February 1979, and was established on the basis of June 2 1 day and June 20 12. Supported by modern information technology, it is a new type of university that provides continuing education services for members of society with and without academic qualifications, aiming at promoting fair educational opportunities, sharing high-quality educational resources and constantly improving the quality of the people. The core concepts of the school are: openness, responsibility, quality, diversification and internationalization.

Tianjin Open University, founded in 1958, is the first distance education institution in China with radio correspondence as its main teaching method. The school has experienced three stages: Tianjin Radio and Correspondence University, Tianjin Radio and Correspondence University and Tianjin Open University. On February 26th, 2020, 65438, with the approval of Tianjin Municipal People's Government, the school was renamed Tianjin Open University. Since its establishment more than 60 years ago, it has set up 80 undergraduate and specialist majors in 9 disciplines, trained nearly 400,000 graduates and provided social training and lifelong learning services for 54 million people.

There are 52,000 students in the school, including undergraduate students10.4 million and junior college students' 38,000. There are 2 16 faculty members, of which 32% are senior titles and 8 1% are masters or above. Haihe Garden and Shui Ying Road, a part of the school, cover an area of 74 mu with a building area of 48,000 square meters. The system has 30 branch schools, workstations and learning centers, and 727 community and township learning points, forming a school-running system covering all districts, counties, streets (townships), major industries and key enterprises in the city. The staff of the whole system 1520, of which senior titles account for 42.6%; It covers an area of 870 mu with a building area of 670,000 square meters.