The School of Foreign Languages at Tianjin Normal University has six departments: English, Japanese, Russian, Korean, French and University Foreign Language Teaching. It also has five offices, which are Party and Government Office, Student Affairs Office, Academic Affairs Office, Subject Construction and Scientific Research Office, and Educational Technology Center.

The school's master's degree program in English Language and Literature was established in 1986. In 2003, it was authorized to award master's degrees in Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics. In 2011, it was authorized to award master's degrees in Foreign Language and Literature (Level One). In 2017, it was recognized as a key discipline in Tianjin. In 2010, it was authorized to award master's degrees in Translation and Interpreting. The college's research covers a wide range of foreign language studies, including formal linguistics, applied linguistics, Anglo-American literature, Anglo-American culture, Japanese language and cultural studies, Russian language and culture studies, English and Korean (translation and interpreting). The school has research institutions such as the Language Research Institute, Translation Research Institute, and the Center for North and South Korean Cultural Studies.

After years of development, the school has formed a multi-language and multi-directional academic structure. Its English (Education) major, Korean major, and Russian major are all geared toward first-class undergraduate majors. Additionally, the Korean major is also an applied major included in the 13th Five-Year Plan for Tianjin city.

The school has 149 staff members, of which are 125 full-time teachers, ten professors, and 23 associate professors. The teachers are highly qualified, with 97% holding master's or doctoral degrees. It has a total of 1,956 students, including 1,734 undergraduate students and 222 graduate students. The school has outstanding members of staff, including one member of the Teaching Guidance Committee of the Ministry of Education, one expert in the national training program for teachers, and one member selected for the Tianjin "131" Innovative Talents Project. It also has one city-level teaching master and five teaching masters at the university level, as well as two people who have received the May 1st Labor Medal in Tianjin. In addition, the college has one city-level innovation team, four people selected for the "Middle-aged and Young Backbone Innovative Talent Cultivation Plan" of Tianjin universities, and two people selected for the "Young Reserve Talent Support Plan" of Tianjin universities.

The school’s information center boasts over 12,000 original English books, nearly 280 types of professional periodicals in Chinese and foreign languages, as well as a large number of audio and video materials for professional teaching in English, Japanese, Russian, French, Korean and other languages. It is one of the three characteristic information centers of TJNU, and its book collection on formal linguistics research ranks among the best in China.

The school is committed to cultivating high-quality foreign language professionals for the new era who possess superb linguistic abilities, profound humanistic literacy, outstanding thinking skills, cross-cultural communication skills, and outstanding cross-cultural communication skills for the purpose of serving the strategic development needs of the country and Tianjin, and becoming the foreign language talent training base that serves the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and even the whole country.