Hebei United University is a key university in Hebei Province. It is a provincial university approved by state administration of work safety, the National Bureau of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the People's Government of Hebei Province. It is also one of the two comprehensive universities in Hebei Province. The school was included in the second batch of outstanding engineer education and training plan and the first batch of outstanding doctor education and training plan.
The school is located in Tangshan, China, the center of Bohai Economic Development Zone. It is a comprehensive university focusing on engineering and medicine, with the coordinated development of science, economics, management, literature, law and art, and with various levels and types of doctoral and postgraduate education, undergraduate education, specialist education, international student education and continuing education. The school has the qualification of recommending excellent undergraduate graduates to study for master's degree without examination, and it is one of the eight universities in Hebei Province that recommend graduate students without examination.
On February 201May 13, the Ministry of Education replied to the People's Government of Hebei Province and approved that Hebei United University was officially renamed North China University of Science and Technology.