Directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC), the deputy ministerial level is directly under the central management. It is a national key construction university of "World-class University Construction (Class A)", "2 1 1 Project" and "985 Project". Selected into the national "Everest Plan", "Strong Foundation Plan", "20 1 1 plan", "11plan", excellent legal talent education and training plan, public postgraduate program of national construction of high-level universities, scholarship for overseas students from China government, Ministry of Education.

Nankai University was founded by Yan Xiu and Zhang Boling, adhering to the concept of saving the country through education. It started at 1904 and was established at 19 19. 1937, the campus was bombed by the Japanese invaders and moved south. It merged with Peking University and Tsinghua University in Changsha to form National Changsha Temporary University, and 1938 moved to Kunming, renamed National Southwest Associated University. 1946 returned to Tianjin to resume school and change to the state; After the founding of New China, it has undergone institutional adjustment and become a national key university with equal emphasis on arts and sciences. Since the reform and opening up, Tianjin Foreign Trade College and China Tourism Management Cadre College have merged.

As of June 5438+ 10, 2020, the school covers an area of 445 1.900 square meters, of which Balitai Campus covers an area of 1.225 million square meters, Jinnan Campus covers an area of 2,458,900 square meters, and TEDA College covers an area of 67,200 square meters. Total area of school buildings1979,000 square meters; There are 26 professional colleges and 92 undergraduate majors; At present, there are 1 1 first-class master programs, 27 professional master programs, 3 first-class doctoral programs, 2 doctoral programs 1, and 28 post-doctoral research stations. 2 162 full-time teachers; There are 28,557 full-time students, including undergraduate students16,372, graduate students 8,322 and doctoral students 3,863.