The university aims to develop into a preeminent research and education institution with medical science as the core and life science as the main support to develop the university into a multi-disciplinary medical university.  There are 9697 full time medical students studying at the university, among them are 5353 undergraduates, 2845 Master’s degree Students, 434 Ph.D Students and 1062 international students.

Tianjin Medical University is the second pilot medical university approved by the Chinese government for 8 years medical education after Peking Union Medical University and is among the first 15 pilot institutions to offer the seven-year medical program. They are clinical medicine (seven-year and five-year programs), Dentistry (seven and five years programs), Anesthesiology (five-year program), Medical Imaging (five-year program), Medical Laboratory (five-year program), Preventive Medicine (five-year program), Nursing (five-year program), Biomedical Engineering ( four-year program), Pharmacy (four-year program), Pharmaceutical Preparation (four-year program), Law of Science (four-year program), Optometry (four-year program), Sports Health and Rehabilitation (four-year program), Health Administration (four-year program), among them the nursing ,biomedical engineering and medical imaging are the first subjects which started in China.

Academic exchange programs and cooperative relationships have been established with 73 universities from 17 countries and an “Advisory Committee of Foreign Experts” has been formed. Since the establishment of our university, we have educated over 40000 medical professionals at different levels. The university obtained the “excellent” appraisal for bachelor degree and seven-year Master’s degree education from Ministry of Education in 2002 and 2008.

Availability of certain programs taught in English requires individual consultation.

Dentistry – 48 000 RMB/year