

Tianjin University of Finance and Economics was founded in 1958, and is one of the earliest universities of finance and economics established in new China. It was founded on the basis of the economics and management majors of Nankai University and brought together a group of experts and scholars who are well known in the field of economics and management from universities in North China and Northeast China. The campus covers an area of nearly 1,400 mu and has a full-time student population of over 15,800. It is a multidisciplinary university with economics and management as the main disciplines, and literature, law, science, engineering, art and other disciplines cross-pollinating and developing in a coordinated manner.
It is also a key university in Tianjin and an important base for training senior economic and management talents in northern China. The university has 3 first-level doctoral programs and post-doctoral stations, 9 first-level master's programs and 15 professional master's programs. It has a complete education system for bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees, and has formed a complete and diversified talent training sequence including general higher education, adult education, international student education and professional qualification training. There are 19 national-level first-class undergraduate programs, and three courses have been selected as the first batch of national first-class courses.
The university is one of the earliest institutions in China to have the qualification of cooperating with foreign countries to hold academic education and granting MBA degrees in the United States, and the MBA program and EMBA program have passed the AMBA accreditation. The University has also been awarded the ACCA Platinum status by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.
Over the years, the quality of education and teaching and the brand of education of the university have been widely recognized by the society, and the university was awarded the title of "National University with Typical Experience in Graduate Employment" by the Ministry of Education. Over the years, the school has adhered to the philosophy of "student growth as the centre", carried forward the spirit of "uninterrupted body, diligent and refined, new day as the way, and the world as the people", excelled and nurtured talents, actively brought into play the advantages of disciplines and talents, and formed Since its establishment, the university has delivered more than 100,000 talents specialized in financial management and related fields for the economic and social development of the country and Tianjin.
The school adheres to the direction of socialism and focuses on cultivating socialist builders and successors who are well-rounded in moral, intellectual, physical and aesthetic development. In accordance with the objectives set by the Second Party Congress, the university adheres to the development principles of improving quality, highlighting characteristics and being innovation-driven, implements the five development tasks of upholding a new concept of development, creating a new pattern of cultivation, focusing on a new direction of disciplines, building a new system of cultivation and improving the effectiveness of governance, comprehensively promotes the construction of "New Finance and Economics" and strives to build a high-level university of finance and economics with distinctive characteristics. The University is committed to building a high-level university of finance and economics with distinctive characteristics.
As of December 2017, the university has one key research base of Humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of education, one Tianjin "2011 Collaborative Innovation Center", two Tianjin key research bases of Humanities and Social Sciences, business administration research center, finance and Insurance Research Center, Tianjin Free Trade Zone Research Institute Four research institutions of China Economic Statistics Research Center were selected as the source think tanks of China think tank index (ctti).
As of December 2017, the university has five national characteristic majors, one national comprehensive specialty reform pilot project, one national "off campus practical education base for college students", two Tianjin comprehensive specialty reform pilot projects, 13 Tianjin brand specialty construction projects, and four Tianjin specialty construction projects related to strategic emerging industries, 9 Tianjin Municipal experimental teaching demonstration centers and 1 Tianjin Municipal virtual simulation experimental teaching center; There are 3 national high-quality courses, 2 national high-quality resource sharing courses and 20 Tianjin Municipal high-quality courses.