The specialties of Tianjin University for the Elderly include: hulusi, baowu, pottery flute, erhu, African tambourine, Chinese painting (landscape), Chinese painting (birds and flowers), Peking Opera, Photography, Calligraphy (Zhao Style), Calligraphy (Euclidean Style), Ethnic Instruments, Electronic Piano, Vocal, Recitation, Hand-Knitting, Accordion, Paper-Cutting, Dance, English, and Chinese Studies.
Tianjin University for the Elderly was founded on April 6, 1985, pioneering the city's elderly education.
Tianjin University for the Elderly has been established for more than 20 years, especially since the turn of the century, under the leadership and care of the municipal government, Tianjin University for the Elderly has seized the opportunity for leapfrog development, and has developed from the early stage of the establishment of the university, which opened 4 professional disciplines, 10 teaching classes, and 552 trainees, to the year 2009, which opened 150 professional disciplines and 413 classes, and enrolled more than 12,000 trainees. More than 12,000 students were enrolled. From 2007, the first to become the country's "double 10,000 schools" (school building area of 10,000 square meters, 10,000 students) of the University of the Elderly.
Tianjin University for the Elderly is one of the comprehensive universities for the elderly with a large scale, many specialties, a full range of levels, and high quality, and it has been running schools for a long time with remarkable achievements.
In November 2005, commissioned by the China Association of Universities for the Elderly and the Office of the National Committee on Aging, it undertook the affairs of the Third General Assembly of the China Association of Universities for the Elderly under the great importance attached to it by the leading comrades of the Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government and under the strong support of the relevant departments, and completed the task successfully and was widely praised. Tianjin Senior Citizens University President Wang Hongjiang as China Association of Universities for the Elderly consultant, executive vice president Ma Guijue as China Association of Universities for the Elderly vice president.