Tianjin University of Commerce was located on Xianyang Road, Hongqiao District. The university, founded in 1980, has a total area 239,900 sq.m., of which over 120,000 square meters are the floorage. The university has 10 departments including Enterprise Management, Restaurant Management, Refrigeration Engineering, Food Engineering, Packaging Engineering, Law and Politics, Accounting, Administration Secretary and Mathematics, offering 21 specialities, as well as 4 teaching branches of Foreign Languages, Marxism-Leninism Study, Physical Education and Adult Education.

It is entitled to confer Master's degrees in cryogenics program. Moreover, the university cooperated with Oklahoma University to set up Enterprise Management School for Master graduate students.

The university's library has a collection of over 0.43 million books.

Tianjin University of Commerce has many science research institutes, including Refrigeration Technology Lab, comprehensive Commerce Design Institute, Food Research Institute, Enterprise Management Study Institute, Computer Center and so on.

The university also published "The Journal of Tianjin University of Commerce," "Research on Advanced Education", and some other magazines.