The College of International Education and Exchange was established in 1964. It has a faculty of 45 full-time teachers, over 70 percent of whom have overseas teaching backgrounds and over 50 percent of whom hold doctoral degrees. The college is authorized to confer doctoral degrees in International Chinese Education, and master's degrees in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, as well as master's degrees in International Chinese Education. It also offers three undergraduate majors, including Japanese Education (in cooperation with Japanese universities) for Chinese students, and Chinese Language and Culture and International Chinese Education for international students.
In terms of international collaboration, the college has partnered with Sehan University in South Korea to offer master's programs in Educational Administration and Information Science, with the Moscow State Institute of Culture in Russia to offer undergraduate programs in Music Studies, and with Mie University in Japan to offer an undergraduate program in Japanese Language Education. It also collaborates with institutions from countries such as the UK, the USA, and Canada to offer four undergraduate majors in Accounting, Early Childhood Education, Physics, and Communication Engineering.
Students of the college have won awards multiple times in performances and competitions of the National University Student Crosstalk Show, Short Video Competitions on International Chinese Language Day, and Storytelling Competitions about China.
The college is highly recognized in Chinese international education and has earned various honors and achievements, such as the qualifications to confer doctoral degrees, designation as a "demonstration base for study in China", and receipt of government scholarships, including the Huawei Scholarship. The college is also a recommending unit for the Confucius Institute Scholarship and hosts the Chinese Proficiency Test. Furthermore, it serves as a training center for international Chinese teachers and pre-deployments for voluntary Chinese language teachers going abroad.
The college builds the Overseas Study Training Base with CESA and the Tianjin French Alliance with the French Alliance Foundation. It provides Chinese language and culture training all year round to international students and offers various programs like one-on-one training, summer and winter camps, and credit exchange with overseas universities. Due to TNU’s teaching quality improvement and steady increase in the number of international students, it has entered the forefront of international student education among Chinese universities.
TNU is the only one of its kind in Tianjin that focuses on training high-quality teachers for basic education. It has rich educational resources, excellent facilities and equipment, a strong humanistic spirit, a beautiful and elegant environment.
TNU has a complete range of disciplines and has outstanding advantages in its majors and has made significant achievements in cultivating talents.
TNU has a strong research capacity with abundant high-quality research practice bases. They have been approved for over 300 national-level projects and won numerous national awards for outstanding achievements.
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TNU adheres to open education and conducts extensive international exchanges and cooperation. It proactively connects the Belt and Road Initiative, and actively serves the national strategy of "Chinese culture going global".
TNU cooperates with countries including Russia, Japan, and South Korea to build four Sino-foreign cooperative education projects, and its scale of international student training ranks among the top in Tianjin.
TNU adheres to open education and conducts extensive international exchanges and cooperation. It proactively connects the Belt and Road Initiative.
