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MTI programs in industry-specific universities have drawn little scholarly attention due to their short history and small scale, but they have irreplaceable advantages in training translators for specific industries because of their time-honored and well-established industry-specific disciplines and programs. For this reason, this paper focuses on MTI programs in 16 industry-specific universities, all of which were granted the right in 2014 and subjected to the assessments by China National Committee for Translation & Interpreting Education in 2018. These universities cover a variety of industries, including civil aviation, medicine, forestry, agriculture, post and telecommunications, architecture, ocean, petrol, electric power and water resources. By inspecting assessment data such as teachers, students, training objectives, programs and characteristic courses, as well as horizontal communications with other disciplines of the respective universities and with language services companies; and by interviewing some teachers from the universities concerned, the authors discuss the merits and demerits of these MTI programs. The paper concludes by drawing some implications on translator training at the national, university and individual levels in China and beyond.