The school adheres to the discipline construction as the leading, with the coordinated development of economics, management, engineering, law, literature, science, art and other disciplines, supporting each other, with distinct business characteristics. The disciplines of power engineering and engineering thermophysics were selected into the list of first-class disciplines in tianjin, and the disciplines of cold chain logistics and modern service industry were selected into the list of characteristic disciplines in tianjin. The university now has 7 municipal key disciplines, 1 engineering research center of the ministry of education, 1 tianjin engineering center, 2 tianjin key laboratories, 2 tianjin key research bases of humanities and social sciences, 1 tianjin university think tank, and many university-level research institutes, research institutes and centers.

The school adheres to cultivating versatile application-oriented innovative and entrepreneurial talents with a high sense of social responsibility and profound business literacy, and has established an innovative and entrepreneurial education system integrating "consciousness, knowledge, ability and practice". The university has one state-level quality resource sharing course and 16 city-level quality courses. It has 4 national characteristic specialties, 11 tianjin brand specialties, 5 tianjin strategic emerging industries related specialties, 8 tianjin advantageous characteristic specialties construction projects, and 12 tianjin applied specialties construction projects. The major of finance is a national pilot specialty of comprehensive reform, the major of food science and engineering is one of the first pilot specialties of national reform program of excellent agricultural and forestry talents, the major of energy and power engineering is a pilot specialty of comprehensive reform of tianjin and the pilot specialty of "excellent engineer talents training" of tianjin. The university has built "international hotel management" national talent training mode innovation experimental area, China tourism and hotel industry talent training base, "tianjin university of commerce -Yantai Moon Co., Ltd. Engineering practice education center" national college students off-campus practice education base. It has 2 national experimental teaching demonstration centers, 10 tianjin municipal experimental teaching demonstration centers (construction units), 1 tianjin municipal virtual simulation teaching experiment center, and 1 tianjin a-level university mass innovation space. In recent years, he has won 13 municipal teaching achievement awards, 10 municipal teaching teacher awards, 2 municipal teaching innovation teams and 10 municipal teaching teams.