Hebei University of Technology, whose predecessor was the Beiyang Institute of Technology founded in 1903, was one of the earliest institutions of higher learning in China to cultivate industrial talents and established the first university-run factory in the country. In 1929 it was renamed Hebei Provincial Institute of Technology, and in 1995 it was renamed Hebei University of Technology. In 1996, the university was among the first batch of key universities under the "211 Project". It was jointly built by Hebei Province, Tianjin Municipality and the Ministry of Education in 2014; In 2017, it was included in the national "Double First-Class" initiative; Selected for the new round of national "Double First-Class" initiative in 2022. For more than 120 years, the school has always adhered to the educational tradition of "working for the country" and the spirit of the school motto of "Diligence, prudence, Public Service and loyalty", and has formed the educational characteristics of "combining work and study", cultivating more than 300,000 outstanding graduates for the country. In recent years, six disciplines, namely materials science, chemistry, engineering, environment and ecology, computer science, and Social Sciences in general, have steadily improved into the top 1% of ESI global rankings, with engineering entering the top 1‰. The university has been honored with the title of "National Civilized Campus".
The school has 21 teaching institutions and 61 undergraduate programs, among which 37 are national first-class undergraduate program construction points, covering seven disciplines including engineering, science, economics, management, literature, law and art. 21 programs have passed engineering education professional accreditation/Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development professional assessment. It has 1 national "Double First-Class" discipline, 2 national key disciplines, 7 Hebei "Double First-Class" disciplines, 20 Hebei key disciplines, 6 Tianjin Top disciplines and service Industry characteristic discipline clusters, and 7 Tianjin key disciplines. It has 10 postdoctoral research stations, 11 first-level discipline doctoral degree authorization points, 1 doctoral professional degree category, 27 first-level discipline master's degree authorization points and 19 master's professional degree categories. There are more than 24,000 full-time undergraduate students and more than 11,000 postgraduate students.
The school continues to strengthen the construction of a high-level teaching staff. In recent years, the school has recruited and trained a number of national-level talents full-time, with more than 330 people holding provincial or ministerial-level expert titles such as National Teaching Master, National Model Teacher, and Provincial Teaching Master. There are more than 2,700 staff members, including more than 1,800 full-time teachers.
The school has 71 national and provincial-level research platforms, including the National Key Laboratory of Intelligent Power Distribution Equipment and Systems and the National Key Laboratory of Roll Materials and Composite Forming, actively serving the major national strategic needs of coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and the development demands of regional industrial transformation and upgrading. It has won more than 100 provincial and ministerial-level awards, including the Second Prize of the National Natural Science Award, the Second Prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, the Hou Debang Chemical Science and Technology Achievement Award, and the Outstanding Contribution to Science and Technology of Hebei Province. Since the 13th Five-Year Plan, 107 major and key national scientific research projects have been led, and continuous efforts have been made to solve the "bottleneck" technology problems and disruptive technological innovations. 1,030 national-level research projects have been undertaken, and the number of projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China has remained at the level of 100 for six consecutive years. 20 "ten-million-yuan" transfer and transformation contracts were signed, with the highest contract amount reaching 85 million yuan in the first installment. The number of horizontal contracts signed in the year exceeded 800, and the amount of technology contract registration ranked second among universities in Tianjin. The number of authorized patents for the year exceeded 600, and it was approved as one of the first batch of national intellectual property pilot universities; More than 500 million yuan in research funds for the year. Teachers have published papers in top international journals such as Nature, the Yuanguang satellite has successfully flown into space and is in orbit aboard the Long March-8 carrier rocket, and the high-performance robot tactile sensing intelligent system has been included in the 2020 "Innovation China" leading technology list. The application scenario of the large visual model for photovoltaic module reliability testing was selected as one of the top ten scenarios for joint construction and sharing in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region in 2024, and over 100 scientific research achievements received national and provincial-level awards.
The school attaches great importance to international exchanges and cooperation and has now formed a new pattern of international cooperative education that is all-round, multi-level and wide-ranging. At present, the school has signed cooperative education agreements with more than 60 foreign universities, and the cooperative education covers all levels from undergraduate to doctoral. Hebei University of Technology has established the Finland Campus with Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology and the Arizona Institute of Technology with the University of Arizona. There are more than 1,500 students in Sino-foreign cooperative education programs and nearly 200 international students at the university.
At present, the provincial, municipal and ministerial co-construction has built a new development platform for the university. The national "Double First-Class" initiative has enabled the university to enter a "new era" of development. The 120-year university of Technology embarks on a new journey. To provide talent and intellectual support for the economic and social development of the country and the region, and to contribute to the progress of human civilization!
(Relevant data as of October 2025)
