The College of Continuing Education of Tianjin University, formerly known as the College of Adult Education of Tianjin University, was approved by the Ministry of Education and was established in February 1986 as one of the first adult education colleges in China. Its main task is to organize and manage higher correspondence education, evening education, continuing education after university, teacher training, middle and high-end training and self-study examination classes for on-the-job workers' higher education. In 2004, the College of Adult Education of Tianjin University was renamed the College of Continuing Education of Tianjin University.

The College of Continuing Education of Tianjin University has always insisted on serving the socialist modernization, adhering to the spirit of rigorous scholarship and strict teaching requirements, making full use of and relying on the school's abundant teachers and advanced teaching conditions to comprehensively improve the quality and efficiency of running schools and cultivate high-quality applied professionals. 1997 was awarded "National Excellent School for Adult Higher Education Evaluation" by the Ministry of Education. In 2004, Tianjin University was awarded a bachelor's degree in adult higher education by Tianjin Academic Degree Office. 20 1 1 was awarded the title of "Tianjin Higher Education Self-taught Examination Senior Examiner School" by Tianjin Higher Education Self-taught Examination Committee; And was awarded the title of "Advanced Collective of Higher Education Self-taught Examination" by the National Higher Education Self-taught Examination Steering Committee.