Nankai University University, referred to as "Nankai", is directly under the Ministry of education of the people's Republic of China and directly under the central government. It is one of the key construction universities in the national "world-class university construction (a)", national "211 Project" and "985 Project". It has been selected into the national "Everest plan", "strong foundation plan", "2011 plan", "111 plan" and excellent legal personnel education and training It is a member of the international public university forum and one of the "northern stars of universities".Nankai University was founded by Yan Xiu and Zhang Boling with the idea of saving the nation through education. It started in 1904. In 1937, its campus was destroyed by Japanese invaders and moved southward. Together with Peking University and Tsinghua University, it formed the national Changsha temporary University in Changsha, Hunan Province. In 1938, it moved to Kunming, Yunnan Province. Changsha temporary University changed its name to National Southwest United University. In 1946, it returned to Tianjin and became a national university Since the reform and opening up, Tianjin Institute of foreign trade and China Institute of tourism management have been merged.As of January 2020, the school covers an area of 4.4519 million square meters, of which Balitai campus covers an area of 1.225 million square meters, Jinnan campus covers an area of 2.4589 million square meters, and TEDA college covers an area of 67200 square meters. The total building area of the school is 1.979 million square meters; there are 26 professional colleges and 92 undergraduate majors; there are 11 first-class master's programs, 27 professional master's programs, 31 first-class doctoral programs, 1 second-class doctoral program, 28 post doctoral research stations; there are 2162 full-time teachers; there are 28557 full-time students in the school, including 16372 undergraduates, 8322 master's students and doctoral students There are 3863 graduate students.