Donghua Institute of Technology is right to recruit a group of students for the whole country and belongs to a university.

Donghua University of Technology has the right to award professional degrees such as doctor's degree and master's degree, and the right to recruit foreign students. It is an "excellent undergraduate teaching university" in China. Donghua Institute of Technology is known as "the cradle of China's nuclear geoscience talents" and "the precious wealth of the world's atomic energy industry".