Tianjin University of Science & Technology (TUST) is a leading comprehensive university located in Tianjin, with balanced disciplines offered in industry, science, art, economy, management and law. The university offers a whole range of degree programs of different levels, and has long been authorized to accept international students. There are more than 17,000 registered students at TUST and 1750 full-time faculty, including two hundred and sixty-nine master's and doctoral candidate supervisors. More than 500 faculty hold senior professional technological titles, including members of disciplinary assessment groups of the Academic Degree Committee of the State Council, candidates for the national talent program for the new century, young and middle-aged experts that provide outstanding contributions at the state level, talented individuals from the Ministry of Education, special professors of Tianjin, honored experts of Tianjin, experts enjoying the special allowances from the State Council and special “Haihe Scholars” professors, etc. TUST has a mobile postdoctoral center for light industry technology and engineering and a mobile postdoctoral center of Tianjin municipal food processing engineering. TUST offers eleven doctoral programs, thirty-nine master degree programs, ten professional master degree programs in engineering, four on-the-job master programs for university teachers, a national key discipline, and forty-six undergraduate programs. There is an MOE engineering research center and a key lab both at the state level, six provincial key disciplines, six provincial key labs, research centers and industry technology centers. TUST has established academic relations with more than forty colleges and research institutions in the USA, Japan, U.K., France, Russia, Australia, Canada, Germany, Sweden, Finland and Korea.