The school has 16 professional college, graduate school, national defense education college, international education college and other teaching institutions.
The School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering and the School of Instrumentation and Electronics can be regarded as the strongest disciplines.
North university of china is a multi-disciplinary teaching and research university jointly founded by the Shanxi Provincial People's Government and the National Bureau of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, and managed by the Shanxi Provincial People's Government. The school's predecessor was Taihang Industrial School, which was the first ordnance school of our party and army founded by the Eighth Route Army General Command in Taihang Anti-Japanese Base Area in 194 1. After Taiyuan Institute of Machinery and North China Institute of Technology, it was renamed north university of china with the approval of the Ministry of Education in June 2004. ?