The Education of Humanities at Tongji University started as early as the beginning of the 20th century; when students from the University played an important part in the New Culture Movement. In the end of 1940's the College of Law (with the Department of Law) and the College of Liberal Arts (with the Department of Philosophy, the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, the Department of Foreign Languages and the Department of History) merged into the College of Liberal Arts and Law. (This College was then transferred to Fudan University, during the nation wide restructuring of universities.) The College was restored in 1993 following the merging of the Department of Social Sciences with the Department of Foreign Languages. (the latter became an independent College in 1998.)

The College of Liberal Arts and Law consists of five departments and five research institutes. The editorial section of Journal of Tongji University is also set in the College (social science edition). The five departments are the Department of Philosophy and Social Science, the Department of Politics and Administration Management, the Department of Law, the Department of Chinese Language and Literature and the Department of Theoretical Economics. The seven research institutes include: Institute of Society and Culture, Institute of Foreign Law, Institute of Overseas Chinese Literature, Institute of China Railway Development, the Institute of Labor Economy, the Department of Environmental Law and the Department of German Philosophy and Culture. Currently there are over 180 teachers at the College, among whom 24 are full professors and 63 associate professors. The College offers nine Bachelor degree programs to more than 760 undergraduate students and twenty-one Master degree programs to 192 postgraduate students; the College also provides over 100 non-degree selective courses in humanities and social sciences. The College has established connections with other universities and research organizations in Germany, Japan and .the United States for academic cooperation and exchange of Student and teachers.

Bachelor Degree Programs
Philosophy
Administration Management
Law
Chinese Language
International Politics
Sociology (Social Work included)
Economics
Drama. Film and TV Literature
Chinese Language and Literature

Master Degree Programs
Marxist Theory and Political Education
Theory of Politics
Political Economy
Labor Economy
Constitution and Administrative Law
Ethics
Drama and Opera
Adult Education
Vocational Education
Scientific Philosophy
Law Theory
Civil Law and Business Law
International Law
International Relations
Foreign Philosophy
Aesthetics
Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
Studies on Arts and Literature
Higher Education
Educational Technology
World Literature & Comparative Literature

Doctoral Programs
Foreign Philosophy
Marxist Theory
Political Education