Local first-class university, but very low-key in China. As one of the "seven sons of ordnance"

"Seven Soldiers" refers to seven undergraduate colleges affiliated to China's former ordnance industry, and north university of china's predecessor, North China Institute of Technology, is one of them. In addition, the other six schools are Beijing Institute of Technology, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Chongqing University of Technology, Xi University of Technology, Shenyang Gong Li University and changchun university of science and technology.

At present, the school still has a high reputation in the field of national defense industry, which has trained a large number of outstanding talents for China's national defense cause and is known as "the first school of people's military industry".