Worth it. In this era when academic qualifications are paramount, if you can read a PhD, it is definitely worth reading. Tongji University, referred to as "Tongji" for short, 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 15 years of development, Tongji University has become a comprehensive, research-oriented and international university with distinctive features and great influence at home and abroad.