Located in Shanghai, China, it is a well-known comprehensive university with a long history, and it is also one of the most stringent universities in China. Tongji University was founded by Germans in 1907, with close ties and frequent exchanges with Germany and Europe, and has been teaching in German until the 1950s. Tongji University is the first batch of national universities established in the Republic of China (1927), and it is also a truly comprehensive university (including medical college) with an earlier modern history in China. Tongji has also become a well-known university in China.
Tongji University is a key university directly under the Ministry of Education. She was founded in 1907. In the early days, she was a German medical college founded by German doctors in Shanghai, named "Tongji", which means cooperation. 19 12, adding an engineering school. 1923 was approved to be renamed as a university, and 1927 was officially designated as the National Tongji University. During the Anti-Japanese War, it moved to Sichuan via Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Yunnan, and 1946 moved back to Shanghai, and developed into a comprehensive university at home and abroad with five colleges of science, engineering, medicine, literature and law. 1952 after the adjustment of departments, Tongji University has become the largest and most comprehensive engineering university in the field of civil construction in China. 1978, with the approval of the central government, resumed exchanges with Germany. Under the leadership of President Brandon Lee, an academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, it has implemented "two transformations", that is, from a university of science and engineering with civil engineering as its main focus to a multidisciplinary university with science and engineering as its main focus, and from a domestic ordinary university to an international university as one of the "windows" for cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries, thus rapidly recovering and developing into a multidisciplinary university with its own characteristics in economy, management, literature and law. 1995 was jointly established by the Ministry of Education and Shanghai, and 1996 was merged into the former Shanghai Institute of Urban Construction and Shanghai Institute of Building Materials Industry, which was praised by the leaders of the State Council as the "Tongji Model" of university system reform. In April 2000, it merged with Shanghai Railway University to form the new Tongji University. At present, it is a comprehensive university with nine disciplines: science, engineering, medicine, literature, law, philosophy, economics, management and teaching. As a research university, it is one of the first universities in the State Council to approve the establishment of a graduate school. As a national key university, the school is included in the "2 1 1 Project" funded by national financial projects, the national education revitalization action plan and the ranks of high-level universities built by local key universities.
Tongji University has schools of architecture and urban planning, civil engineering, school of economics and management, electronics and information engineering, environmental science and engineering, foreign languages, humanities, law and politics, materials science and engineering, mechanical engineering, medicine, science, transportation, automobile, ocean and earth sciences, life sciences and technology, aerospace and mechanics, communication and arts, women's and software. There are also continuing education colleges, advanced technical colleges, vocational and technical education colleges, international cultural exchange colleges, online education colleges, automobile marketing colleges and film colleges. The school also has the Sino-German College, which is approved by the Chinese and German governments to jointly train graduate students, and the Sino-French School of Engineering and Management, which is organized in cooperation with the Paris Hi-Tech University Group. At present, there are 82 undergraduate majors, 2 18 master's programs, 8 master's programs, 94 doctoral programs, and 6 postdoctoral mobile stations, with more than 50,000 students and more than 4,200 teaching and research personnel, including 6 academicians of China Academy of Sciences, 7 academicians of China Academy of Engineering and 7 10 professors. As one of the important national scientific research centers, the school has 22 national and provincial key laboratories and engineering research centers. The school also has 6 affiliated hospitals and 2 affiliated schools.
Tongji University has formed the Tongji spirit with the motto of "being rigorous and realistic, uniting and innovating" and "helping each other in the same boat and striving for self-improvement" in its long-term running, and gradually formed its five advantages in running a school: the traditional advantages of a long history, rigorous style of study and abundant teachers; Advantages of architecture, civil engineering, ocean, environment, vehicles, transportation and other disciplines; Learn from others and use the "window" of German (European) communication; Based on Shanghai, closely combine the regional advantages of international metropolis development; Organizational advantages of being directly under the central government and serving the main battlefield of national economic construction.
In recent years, Tongji University is exploring and gradually forming its own modern educational concept and school-running concept. Taking undergraduate education as the foundation of establishing a school and postgraduate education as the road to strengthening a school. Establish a comprehensive quality education with knowledge, ability and personality trinity and a training model for compound talents. Adhere to the coordinated development of the four school-running functions of "personnel training, scientific research, social service and international exchange", strive to strengthen the function of serving the society and realize the centralization of university functions. Guided by the national science and technology development strategy and the key needs of regional economy, we will promote the high-tech development of traditional disciplines, enhance the strength of emerging disciplines and cross-disciplinary intensification. Closely integrate with the industrial chain, form a discipline chain and discipline group integrating superior disciplines and relatively weak disciplines, and build a discipline system of comprehensive universities. In the process of contributing to the national economic construction and social development, strive for more "individual champions" and enhance the academic status and social reputation of the school.
After the completion of Tongji University, the campus covers an area of more than 3,700 mu and is divided into five campuses: siping road Campus is located in siping road; Huxi Campus is located in Zhennan Road, Shanghai; Hubei Campus is located in Hexin Road, Shanghai; Hudong Campus is located in Wudong Road, Shanghai; Jiading Campus under construction is located in Shanghai Anting International Automobile City.