Founded in 1958, the University of Finance and Economics was established earlier in the People's Republic of China, an important base for cultivating senior economic and management talents in northern China, and a multidisciplinary university with cross-penetration and coordinated development of multiple disciplines

Tianjin University of Finance and Economics is a multidisciplinary university with economics and management as the backbone, and eight disciplines such as literature, law, science, engineering, education, and art are cross-penetrated and coordinated development.

Founded in 1958, the school is based on the economics major of Nankai University, and has gathered a group of famous teachers in the field of economics from universities in North China and Northeast China. Formerly known as Hebei University of Finance and Economics, it was transferred to the leadership of Tianjin Municipality on October 1, 1969 and renamed Tianjin University of Finance and Economics. On May 17, 2004, with the approval of the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, it was renamed Tianjin University of Finance and Economics. The school now covers an area of nearly 1,400 acres, with a total building area of about 520,000 square meters and a library collection of more than 150 books. In recent years, a new digital Shaw Library, a 160,000-square-meter student apartment city, and a 180,000-square-meter new teaching building complex that is not inferior to the world's famous university buildings have been built. The campus is shaded by green trees, the lake is rippling, and the architectural landscape, cultural landscape, and natural landscape are harmoniously integrated, elegant and pleasant.

As early as the early days of reform and opening up, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, the university became the first university in China to set up master's programs in international trade, business management, finance, public finance, accounting, statistics, and doctoral programs in accounting and statistics. In 1996, with the approval of the former State Education Commission, it became an institution that can recruit Master of Business Administration (MBA), and has the right to confer master's degrees for in-service personnel to apply for master's degrees with the same academic qualifications as graduate students. The disciplines cover 8 disciplines, including economics, management, literature, science, law, engineering, education, and art. At present, there are 3 first-level discipline doctoral degree authorization points such as "Applied Economics", "Business Administration" and "Management Science and Engineering", and 3 post-doctoral research mobile stations, covering 21 second-level discipline doctoral degree authorization points; It has 7 first-level discipline master's degree programs, covering 46 second-level discipline master's degree programs, 13 professional master's degree programs, and 48 undergraduate majors. It has formed a perfect talent training sequence including doctoral students, master's students, undergraduate education, as well as adult education, international student education, and professional qualification training at various levels and forms, and is a national teacher training base for higher vocational education.

The university has a high-level teaching team, with 741 full-time teachers, 44% of whom are professors and associate professors, and 58% of the teachers have or are studying for doctoral degrees. Teachers with overseas study experience account for 19% of the total number of teachers. He is a member of the Discipline Evaluation Group of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council, a member of the Discipline Evaluation Group of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, a member of the Discipline Evaluation Group of the National Social Science Foundation, a member of the Economics Teaching Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education, a distinguished professor of the "Changjiang Scholars Award Program" of the Ministry of Education, an expert with special government subsidies from the State Council, and a national famous teacher. The university has hired more than 250 domestic and foreign experts and scholars as visiting and part-time professors and doctoral supervisors. Dr. Mundell, a well-known professor of economics at Columbia University and the father of the euro, and Dr. McKinnon, the founder of contemporary financial development theory and a professor at Stanford University, have all come to our university as visiting professors to give lectures.

The school has identified "cultivating industry elites and academic innovative talents who meet the requirements of the times, have the potential for sustainable development, and have both ability and political integrity" as the goal of talent training, closely combine "wide caliber and thick foundation" with the goal of educating people, pay attention to the cultivation and education of students, and strive to improve students' learning ability, practical ability and innovation ability.

The school adheres to the principle of opening up to the outside world and takes the path of internationalization strategy. With the approval of the Academic Degrees Office of the State Council and the official confirmation of the on-site inspection and evaluation by the North Central Regional Education Evaluation Committee of the United States, the school has become the first institution in China to have the qualification of cooperating with foreign countries to hold academic education and award MBA degrees in the United States. The university actively explores the international education market, and has pioneered the four-year undergraduate program of "China Economic Commerce" in domestic universities, and recruited foreign students from the United States, Japan, Canada, Malaysia, Indonesia, Mongolia, Vietnam, and Thailand.

After 60 years of accumulation, it has initially formed a school with distinctive characteristics, excellent cultural traditions and rigorous school spirit. The majority of graduates have a solid theoretical foundation, extensive professional knowledge, strong practical ability and excellent quality, and are generally welcomed by employers, and a large number of outstanding alumni have become well-known experts and leaders in the field of China's economy, so that the education brand of Tianjin University of Finance and Economics has been recognized by the society.

Tianjin University of Finance and Economics takes education as the foundation, focuses on improving the quality of teaching, finds the right position, gives full play to its advantages, develops its characteristics, takes the initiative to meet the national strategic needs, is based on Tianjin, faces the whole country, and looks at the world, and strives to build a high-level university of finance and economics.