So far, TUST has built up the following important research centers and labs: 1 National Engineering Laboratory (the united engineering laboratory of Metabolic Control Fermentation Technology supported both locally and nationally), the only national Institute of New Countryside Development in Tianjin, 2 Key Labs of MOE (one of Food Nutrition and Safety, and the other of Industry Fermentation Micro-biology), 1 Research Center of MOE (Food Biology Technology Engineering), 2 co-operative National Engineering Labs with Chinese Academy of Sciences (one of Industrial Enzymes, and the other of Pulp and Paper Making), 5 Key Labs of Tianjin, 1 Engineering Laboratory of Tianjin, 4 Engineering Centers of Tianjin, 1 Cooperative and Innovative Center of Tianjin (Food Safety Low Carbon Manufacturing), and 1 Key Research Center of Humanities and Social Sciences of Tianjin Institutions of Higher Education (Food Safety Management and Strategy).

Faculty and Education 

Currently, a team of 2,291 working staff constitute the whole faculty, among which 473 serve as supervisors of master and doctoral candidates and 769 hold such senior professional titles as full professors and associate professors. This well-organized team is endowed with academic competence and innovative willingness to support the further development of TUST. Adhering to the motto of “For Virtue, Knowledge and Practice We Feel Deep Reverence; To Our Nation, Campus and Fellowman We Find Easy Attachment”, TUST takes the quality of education as its very lifeline by stressing personality and morality other than knowledge.

Researches and Accomplishments

TUST pays high attention to scientific researches, so it has consecutively won 7 national and 35 provincial awards. More and more research projects are constantly granted to TUST, some of which have marked very important breakthroughs, such as the Preeminent Youth Fund Projects of the Natural Sciences Foundation, the Key Projects of the Natural Sciences Foundation, the Projects of National Social Sciences Foundation, the International (Regional) Projects of the Natural Sciences Foundation, the National Science and Technology Planning Projects Led by Chief Scientists. Since the technological platforms continue to make a splash, the scientific research platforms above the provincial level have amounted up to 21.

With the development of the international cooperation, TUST has hosted over 30 academic meetings for international exchanges and foreign experts have been invited to give more than 200 lectures. Noticeably, in 2014 it has hosted the Young Scientists Forum of Summer Davos in Tianjin with great success. In addition, the “Sino-French Joint Laboratory of Nutritional Safety of Food and Pharmaceutical Chemistry” was co-established by TUST, French National Institute of Medicine and Pierre & Marie Curie University.

International Cooperation and Exchanges

TUST cherishes the idea of being an open educational institution with global reach. So, cooperative ties for international exchanges have been strengthened to more than 80 universities and research institutes in more than 30 countries, such as USA, Japan, Australia, Canada, Germany, Sweden and Finland largely in the form of regular scientific research cooperation and students exchange programs.

And great importance is attached by TUST to international cooperation in running school programs. On the one hand, based on the Sino-American project, cooperative projects cosponsored by TUST and Australia, Japan and the UK follows in accordance with agreements signed to co-produce talents with California University and University of Georgia in USA, Ottawa University in Canada, Nagasaki University in Japan and University of Lodz in Poland, etc. mainly in the format of “one plus two plus one”, “two plus two” and “three plus two”.

Following the inevitable tendency to go international, undergraduates and postgraduates with a nice academic record at TUST are sorted out and sent to these universities on a yearly basis for a learning visit, and the number of students who have participated in these programs until now has almost amounted to a thousand. This experience has broadened their horizons to a great extent. In 2009, TUST found itself among the educational institutions to receive foreign students financed by the Government Scholarship of China, and since has offered a complete program of foreign students education ranging from language teaching to diploma education encompassing the three levels of bachelor’s degree, master’s degree and the doctoral degree. The School of Economics and Management and School of Biological Engineering has established English majored programs for international students. In addition, annually regular exchanges and learning projects with Monterey Industrial University in Mexico, Ngee Ann Polytechnic in Singapore and other universities. Since 2001, TUST brought over 3,000 foreign students from more than 80 countries for long or short international exchanges. From 2014, a Confucius Institute co-built by TUST and Assumption University of Thailand started to help Chinese language go international.