Over the past five years, Tianjin Normal University has secured 937 projects with 110 of them being national-level social science projects, and 460 provincial-level projects since September 2013. These projects have led to numerous research achievements, including receiving five awards from the Ministry of Education's China University Humanities and Social Sciences Research Results Awards, two from the National Education Science Outstanding Achievement Awards, 45 from the Tianjin Social Science Outstanding Achievement Awards, and eight from the Tianjin Outstanding Think Tank Achievements.
The university has published a total of 415 books and 209 papers in humanities and social sciences, with 2,313 papers having been included in CSSCI.
The university’s Institute of Psychology and Behavioral Science has been twice rated as an Excellent Humanities and Social Science Key Research Base by the Ministry of Education, and its Institute of Political Culture and Political Civilization Construction and the Institute of European Civilization have been rated as Tianjin Key Humanities and Social Science Research Bases. TJNU’s Chinese Crosstalk Art Inheritance Base was approved by the Ministry of Education as the first batch of excellent traditional Chinese culture heritage bases. Its National Governance Research Center has been approved as a high-quality think tank for universities in Tianjin, and this together with the Emergency Management Research Center, the Free Economic Zone Research Institute, and the Regional Development Strategy and Reform Research Institute, have been included in the CTTI Source Think Tanks.
(Data as of September 2018)