The School of Foreign Languages (hereinafter shortened as SFL), TUST, has started from the Department of Applied Englishestablished in 1987. In 1991, it was renamed the Department of Economics and Foreign Trade. In July 2001, it underwent a discipline division into the Department of Foreign Languages and the Department of Economics and Management. In 2003, the Department of Foreign Languages developed itself into the SFL, focusing primarily on undergraduate and graduate education and engaged in academic research in related fields.

Currently, the SFL offers three undergraduate programs of English, Japaneseand Translation, of which the Translation program was listed among the national-level first-class construction majors in 2021, and a MA program with regard to the first-level discipline of Foreign Language and Literature, which grew into a key discipline supported by TUST in 2014 anda key discipline supported by Tianjin Municipality in 2017, which covers three secondary discipline MA programs of Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, English Language and Literature, and Japanese Language and Literature. The SFLis home to seven research centers specializing in Applied Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Translation, Comparative Literature, Japanese Literature, Japanese Language, and Japanese Culture respectively.

The SFL boasts a faculty team of 103 full-time teachers of professional competence and moral integrity, among which there are 7 professors, 35 associate professors, 1 municipal-level teaching expert, 3 university-level teaching experts, and 9 members have the honor to be granted such municipal-level titlesas “high-level talents”“discipline leading talents”“innovative talents”“young innovative talents”in higher education of Tianjin. All faculty members are of doctoral or masters degrees. The past five years witnessedthe application success of early 70 various research projects at different levels, including 2 national social science projects, 3 Ministry of Education projects, and the publishing feats of 36 books and nearly 300 teaching and research papers.

The Schoolhas always focusing on cultivating talents in an all-around manner by insisting on perfecting the construction of disciplines and specialties, improving the quality of teaching and research, facilitatingeducational development via global cooperation, highlighting the characteristics of humanities, especially underscoring the cultivation of students’ innovative thinking and sustainable development potentials for the future and enhancing students’competitiveness in society for the sake ofproducing professional talents with refined personal qualities and competent applicable skills.