Textile Chemistry and Dyeing & Finishing Engineering

Textile Chemistry and Dyeing & Finishing Engineering at Donghua University is one of the university’s oldest and strongest flagship disciplines, falling under the College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. It started earlier and has been granted the right to confer the doctoral degree in 1986. As a sub-discipline under Textile Science and Engineering, it is part of the national “Double First-Class Construction Discipline” and a key discipline under the national “211 Project”. In the recent national discipline assessment by the Ministry of Education, the first-level discipline of Textile Science and Engineering was rated A+, maintaining its leading position in China.

Chemistry

The discipline of chemistry at Donghua University has always been an important supporting fundamental discipline since 1951, when the University was founded. The doctorate program was approved by the Chinese Ministry of Education in 2011, and a post-doctoral research center was established in September, 2014. The first-level discipline of Chemistry was selected as a Shanghai First-Class Discipline (Category B) in 2012 and was included in the Shanghai Plateau Discipline development program in 2015. Since 2010, the Chemistry discipline has consistently ranked among the top 1% of Essential Science Indicators (ESI) global rankings, and by the end of 2024, it had advanced to the top 0.865‰ of ESI worldwide, demonstrating a marked enhancement in its international academic influence.