As a university directly under the Ministry of Education, Northeastern University ranks among the first batch of "double-class", "2 1 1 project" and "985 project" key universities in China. The school is located in Shenyang, with Party Secretary Xiong Xiaomei and President Feng Xiating. The school motto is "self-improvement, unity of knowledge and action".

Northeastern University is a multi-disciplinary university with a focus on work. In February, 20021,official website showed that the school had a branch of Northeastern University in Qinhuangdao, Hebei Province, with a total area of 2.646 million square meters and a building area of 1.837 million square meters.

There are 104 undergraduate majors, including 15 national specialty, 27 national first-class undergraduate majors, 24 first-class doctoral programs, two doctoral programs 12 1 one, 36 first-class master programs and two master programs180.

Northeastern University was founded on April 26th, 1923. Northeastern University was forced to run a school in exile. 1949 In March, Shenyang Institute of Technology was established on the basis of the Engineering College and Science College of Northeastern University (part). /kloc-0 was named Northeast Institute of Technology in August, 1950, and changed its name to Northeastern University in March, 1993.

By 2022, Northeastern University ranked 39th in China University of Soft Science in 2022.