Tongji University

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Tongji University

Facts
Established	1907 (first)
Location	Shanghai and Wuhan
Students	54,750
Type	Public
Rector	Prof. Dr. Gang Wan(万钢)
Address	1239 Siping Road, 200092 Shanghai, P.R. China
Homepage	http://www.tongji.edu.cn

Image:Tongji sanhaowu.jpg

The garden in the Campus of Tongji University, known to many simply as the "Sanhaowu(三好坞)".

Tongji University (Simplified Chinese: 同济大学; Traditional Chinese: 同濟大學) founded in 1907, is one of the leading universities under the State Ministry of Education in the People's Republic of China. It offers degree programs both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The university has School of Sciences, Architecture and Urban Planning, Civil Engineering, Mechanical School, Environmental Science and Engineering, School of Material Science and Engineering, School of Electronics and Information Engineering, School of Traffic and Transportation, Medicine, School of Liberal Arts and Law, Foreign Languages, Economics and Management, Software Engineering, School of Ocean and Earth Science. In addition, there are Institute of Further Education, Institute of Higher Technology, Institute of Vocational and Technical Education, Institute of E-Education, Women's College, Institute of Automobile Marketing and Sino-German Institute which is authorized by Chinese and German governments to run postgraduate courses. There are also three university hospitals located in different campuses. As a state key university, it has also been included in the State Project 211 and the 21st Century Education Plan of China.

1 Students and Degrees
2 History
3 Contact
4 External links

[edit] Students and Degrees

The university now registers over 50,000 students at all levels from certificate and diploma courses to Bachelor's Degrees, Master's, Ph.D. programs and post doctoral attachments. There are over 4200 academic staff for teaching and/or research, among whom there are 6 Members of Chinese Academy of Science, 7 Members of Chinese Academy of Engineering, over 530 professors and 1300 associate professors. The university offers diverse courses in its 81 Bachelors Degrees, 151 Masters, 58 PhD programs and 13 post doctoral mobile stations. As one of the state leading centers for scientific research, the university has 5 state key laboratories and engineering research centers.

[edit] History

The history of Tongji University can be traced back to 1907 when Tongji German Medical School was founded by Erich Paulun, a German doctor in Shanghai. The name Tongji suggests cooperating by riding the same boat. The school was expanded to include engineering in its programs and got its new name as Tongji Medical and Engineering School in 1912. It was formally established as a university in 1923 and was renamed as National Tongji University in 1927. During the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937 -1945), the university campus was moved from Shanghai first to Zhejiang Province, then to Jiangxi Province and Yunnan Province and later to Sichuan Province. It was eventually moved back to Shanghai in 1946. It then grew to be a comprehensive university which offered programs in science, engineering, medicine, arts and law. The university became known both at home and abroad soon. Following a nationwide campaign of reorganizing schools and departments between universities in 1952, Tongji University became a university with strength in engineering, esp. in civil engineering. dd be a comprehensive university strong in engineering which also offered programs in science, economics, management, arts and law.

As a university which had established a reputation for its research, Tongji became one of the first group of universities which were authorized by the China State Council to establish its Graduate School. As one of the leading universities, it was successful in its application for the 211 Program which provided universities with substantial government fund. In 1995 the university became one to be jointly built by the State Education Commission and the Shanghai Municipal Government. In 1996 the university merged with Shanghai Institute of Urban Construction and Shanghai Institute of Building Materials. The merger was hailed by the State Council as Tongji Model in the system reform of higher institutions in China. In April 2000, the expanded Tongji merged again with Shanghai Railway University. Now Tongji University has become a comprehensive university which offers a wide range of programs in sciences, engineering, medicine, arts, law, economics and management.