Northeastern University is one of the earliest universities in China to hold adult higher education and carry out modern distance education pilot. The College of Continuing Education of Northeastern University is a school-running institution specializing in continuing education, a teaching unit and an educational management entity that organizes and implements various forms of continuing education such as adult higher education, online education, self-study examination and training.

With the aim of serving the society, the college strives for survival by quality and development by characteristics, adheres to the tradition of "strict teaching and quality first", and relies on the high-quality educational resources and abundant teachers of Northeastern University to accumulate rich experience and resources in running schools, build a professional school management team, and build a continuing education system with complete educational types, diverse teaching forms and complete professional levels to provide perfect academic education and non-academic education services for the society. Among them, academic education includes four types of running schools: night university, correspondence university, self-taught examination and online education; Five levels of running a school: junior college, undergraduate course, second degree and second degree; There are 1 15 undergraduate and specialist majors, 19 correspondence stations and more than 280 online education and learning centers in China. Up to now, more than 48,000 people have been enrolled in various academic education, more than 8,000 people have registered for self-study exams, and more than 0.0 million people have been trained in various professions. Non-academic education has formed comprehensive training covering nine categories, such as mining, metallurgy, automation, machinery and information technology, and four aspects, such as advanced business administration, comprehensive quality of party and government cadres, postgraduate courses and order training, including course training, on-the-job training, professional skills training, qualification examination and other forms. More than 3,000 trainings are conducted for society and enterprises every year.

The College has been successively identified as the National Metallurgical System Continuing Education Base, Liaoning Province 2 1 Century Talent Development and Training International Cooperation Project Training Base, Shenyang Continuing Education Base, Liaoning Province "Double-qualified" Teacher Training Base, Modern Distance Education Teachers and Managers Training Base, Liaoning Province Professional and Technical Personnel Continuing Education Base and many other authorized bases.