There is only one university in Heyuan, which is heyuan polytechnic.

Heyuan polytechnic is a full-time general higher vocational college approved by the Guangdong Provincial People's Government and put on record by the Ministry of Education. Located in Jiangdong New District, Heyuan City, Guangdong Province, it is a model higher vocational college in Guangdong Province. The data is selected from "Hundred Schools Project" in China. The school is backed by Wutongshan, facing Dongjiang and close to the East Ring Road, with beautiful scenery and convenient transportation.

The school consists of seven teaching departments, including School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, School of Business Administration, Laolong Teachers College, College of Humanities and Arts, College of Continuing Education and Department of Ideological and Political Theory. 48 majors, including applied electronic technology, mold design and manufacturing, tourism management, fashion design, secretarial work and preschool education; There are three provincial professional groups: electronic information engineering technology, tourism management and preschool education. There are 40 on-campus practice bases and 58 1 off-campus practice bases; The total value of existing teaching instruments and equipment is 233 million yuan, and the library has paper books 1 107300. There are 5 provincial engineering technology research centers, 0 provincial agricultural science and technology innovation centers, 3 provincial science and technology innovation bases, 0 municipal engineering technology research centers, 0 municipal agricultural science and technology innovation centers and 2 municipal technology application research institutes.