It is a comprehensive provincial undergraduate college with the right to award master's degrees in northwest Hebei. Selected into the education and training plan of outstanding agricultural and forestry talents of the Ministry of Education, and awarded the modern agricultural technology training base of the Ministry of Agriculture by the Ministry of Agriculture.
The school was formed in September 2003 by the merger of Zhangjiakou Medical College, Zhangjiakou Normal College and Zhangjiakou Agricultural College.