Northeastern University and Northeastern University Qinhuangdao Branch are the same school, and the diploma and degree certificate are the same. The cover, text format, certificate number, principal's signature and school official seal are all the same. The only difference is that "Qinhuangdao Branch" will be added before the major studied to show the difference.

Northeastern University, founded in 1923, is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education and the first batch of high-level universities in "21/project" and "985 project". Running a school for more than 90 years, it has trained all kinds of outstanding talents for the country and society and made important contributions to the national economic construction.

Northeastern University Qinhuangdao Branch is a part of Northeastern University. It is a full-time ordinary institution of higher learning officially approved by the Ministry of Education. Since the establishment of 1987, it has undertaken key construction projects such as "2 1 1 Project", "985 Project" and major projects of the National Social Science Fund.

Actively integrated into the "double-class" construction of Northeastern University, it has now become an open multidisciplinary university with distinctive characteristics.