North China Electric Power University enrolls students in batches in Beijing and the first batch in other provinces, so we usually think of North China Electric Power University as a university. Since 20 19, the first batch of undergraduate students and the second batch of undergraduate students in Beijing college entrance examination have been merged into batch enrollment.

The education department did not say whether North China Electric Power University was one or two universities. Whether North China Electric Power University is one or two universities depends on the enrollment batch of the province (city), which is just a folk saying (at present, the college entrance examination enrolls students by province, and if a university enrolls students in the first batch in a province, it is usually said to be a university. If it is the second batch of enrollment, it is usually said that it is two colleges and universities, and it is also counted as two colleges.

North China Electric Power University is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education, and also a national key construction university of "2 1 1 Project" and "985 Engineering Advantage Discipline Innovation Platform". In 20 17, the school entered the ranks of national "double first-class" universities, focusing on the discipline construction of energy and electric power science and engineering, and started a new journey of building a world-class discipline and a high-level research university.

In the fourth round of discipline evaluation, electrical engineering, power engineering and engineering thermophysics were ranked in file A and file A respectively; Engineering, environment/ecology, materials science, chemistry and social science entered the ESI world before 1‰, of which engineering discipline entered the world before 100 and world before 1‰.