Timeline
August 2026 - Announced the cancellation of its long-term employment system, causing controversy.
November 2010 - Signed a cooperation agreement with Instituto Superior Técnico making IST the Portuguese Campus of Tongji University
July 2005 - Signed a cooperation agreement with Politecnico di Milano and Politecnico di Torino concerning the development of Sino-Italian University Campus in Shanghai and establishment of a Sino-Italian House, one year later a dual bachelor's degree project in engineering, called PoliTong, was launched
2002 - Listed in Project 985
April 2000 - Merged with Shanghai Railway University (a merge between Shanghai Railway College and Shanghai Railway Medical College in May 1995)
August 1996 - Merged with Shanghai Institute of Urban Construction and Shanghai Institute of Building Materials
November 1995 - Listed in Project 211
October 1995 - Declared to be jointly built by the former State Education Commission and the Shanghai Municipal Government
December 1978 - Upon consent by the State Council, resumed connection with Germany and became the window of the cultural, technology and science exchanges between China and Germany
February 1972 - Tongji University merged with the Marine Geology Department of East China Normal University
1952 - The Departments of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry in College of Science merged into Fudan University, the Departments of Machinery, Electrical Engineering and Ship Manufacture merged into Shanghai Jiaotong University. In the meanwhile, Tongji University merged the Civil Engineering Department and School of Architecture from Saint John's University, Shanghai and several other universities.
1951 - The Department of Biology in College of Science merged into East China Normal University, the Medical School and the Department of Survey in College of Engineering moved to Wuhan, Hubei Province
September 1949 - College of Literature and Arts, College of Law merged into Fudan University
June 1949 - Tongji University was taken over by Shanghai Military Control Commission
August 1946 - College of Science expanded as College of Literature and Science moved back to Shanghai
April 1946 - Moved back to Shanghai
1945 - Established the College of Law
October 1940 - Moved Lizhuang in Yibin, Sichuan Province
Winter 1938 - Moved to Kunming, Yunnan Province
September 1937 - Moved to the south of China due to the Second Sino-Japanese War
August 1927 - Renamed as National Tongji University
May 20, 1924 - Approved by the government to be one of the first national universities in China.
March 1922 - Renamed as Tongji Medical and Engineering University
October 1907 - Established as Tongji German Medical School
