Yanshan University (provincial ranking: 1), Hebei University (provincial ranking: 2nd), Medical College of Hebei University (provincial ranking: 3rd), Hebei Agricultural University (provincial ranking: 4th), Hebei Normal University (provincial ranking: 5th) and North China Electric Power University (Baoding) (provincial ranking: 4th).

Hebei Medical University (ranked 7th in the province), shijiazhuang tiedao university (ranked 8th in the province), Hebei University of Science and Technology (ranked 9th in the province) and North China University of Science and Technology (ranked 10 in the province).

Hebei University (HBU), located in Baoding City, Hebei Province, is a key comprehensive university jointly established by the Ministry of Education and the People's Government of Hebei Province, a first-class university supported by Hebei Province, and a pilot university of the Overseas Students Training and Research Center of the Ministry of Education.

It was selected into the comprehensive strength improvement project of universities in the central and western regions, the basic capacity building project of universities in the central and western regions, the education and training plan for outstanding engineers, the education and training plan for outstanding legal talents, the national innovation and entrepreneurship training plan for college students, and the first batch of demonstration universities in China to deepen the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education.

As a member of the "one province, one school" alliance in the central and western regions, it has graduate schools and universities that recommend graduate students without examination.