The scientific research work of Hebei University adheres to the combination with local economic construction and strives to serve the economic construction, scientific and technological progress and social development of Hebei Province. Many disciplines have become scientific research centers and academic exchange windows in Hebei Province. Humanities and social sciences research has always been at the forefront of universities in the province, and it is in the advanced ranks in the research fields of China ancient history, China classical literature, foreign education history, Japanese economy and so on. In natural science research, international frontier work is being carried out in the fields of basic mathematics, optics and material physics, analytical chemistry, organic chemistry and biological science research. Academician Yin Xiangchu has reached the international advanced level in the study of locust classification, and the Catalogue of Locust Distribution and References is the most comprehensive and systematic in the world at present. Academician Song Daxiang is known as "the chief of spider research in China", and Spider in China is the authoritative work of spider research in China. Since the Ninth Five-Year Plan, the number of academic papers collected by SCI in Hebei University ranks first among universities in Hebei Province. In the research of high-tech and applied science and technology, a series of international or domestic advanced achievements have been produced, such as Chinese character recognition method, electrostatic dust removal technology, shrimp feed additive, shrimp sex control, penicillin acylase gene cloning, SOD high-quality and low-cost technology.

Postgraduate enrollment majors in Hebei University include: Marxist philosophy, China philosophy, logic, ethics, legal theory, constitutional and administrative law, criminal law, civil and commercial law, procedural law, economic law, political science theory, sociology, basic principles of Marxism, history of Marxist development, study of Marxism in China, administration, master of law (illegal study), master of law (law), political economy and so on. World economy population, resource and environmental economics, national economics, regional economics, finance, international trade, statistics, quantitative economics, accounting, master of accounting, demography, pedagogy, history of principle education, comparative education, preschool education, higher education, development and educational psychology, educational technology, basic psychology, educational management, modern educational technology, literature and art, linguistics and applied linguistics, Chinese language. Classical philology in China, ancient literature in China, modern and contemporary literature in China, comparative literature and world literature, English language and literature, Japanese language and literature, foreign linguistics and applied linguistics, journalism, communication, art, fine arts, design art, radio and television art, master of literature, historical philology, ancient history of China, master of Chinese international education, etc.