Tongji University, referred to as Tongji University for short, is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC) jointly established by the Ministry of Education, the State Oceanic Administration and Shanghai. It is a famous institution of higher learning in China with a long history and a high reputation. It is a national second-class university focused on the 2 1 1 Project and the 985 Project, and it is also one of the universities with the strictest enrollment standards in China.

As early as the beginning of last century, Tongji University had the task of public foreign language English teaching after its establishment. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the English Department has long been a compulsory and elective course for doctoral students, master students, undergraduates, junior college students, correspondence students and night college students.

As early as the early 1960s, English majors began to recruit students and held training courses for English teachers. Before the end of the Cultural Revolution, the then Foreign Language Teaching and Research Department began to run English teacher training classes. 1974. 1979 1 The predecessor of English Department of Tongji University, the Department of Foreign Languages of Tongji University, was established in 10.

The Department of Foreign Languages of Tongji University began to recruit postgraduates of EST from 1986, undergraduates of EST from 1990 and 1993. 1In April, 1998, Tongji University established the School of Foreign Languages, which realized the three-level management of the school, the school and the department. The former Foreign Languages Department was renamed the English Department.