Donghua University's ace majors: mechanical engineering, polymer materials and engineering, composite materials and engineering, automation, textile engineering, clothing design and engineering, light chemical engineering, environmental engineering, information management and information system, e-commerce, clothing and costume design, building environment and energy application engineering.

National majors of Donghua University (1 1): mechanical engineering, polymer materials and engineering, composite materials and engineering, automation, textile engineering, clothing design and engineering, light chemical engineering, environmental engineering, information management and information system, e-commerce, clothing and costume design.

Municipal (4): electronic information engineering, software engineering, building environment and energy application engineering, applied physics.

Major with national characteristics: textile engineering, clothing design and engineering, light chemical engineering, information management and information system, Japanese, polymer materials and engineering, applied physics, environmental engineering, functional materials, energy and environmental system engineering.

Education and training plan for outstanding engineers of the Ministry of Education: polymer materials and engineering, mechanical engineering and automation, electronic information engineering, software engineering, network engineering, environmental engineering, light chemical engineering, textile engineering, composite materials and engineering, automation, clothing design and engineering.

Major of engineering education certification: building environment and energy application, environmental engineering, textile engineering, automation, polymer materials and engineering, clothing design and engineering.

Donghua University was founded in 195 1 as East China Institute of Textile Technology, which was formed by the merger of textile departments of East China, Central South and Southwest China universities such as Jiaotong University. 1985 was renamed China Textile University, and 1999 was renamed Donghua University.