Hebei North University is a provincial-administrated multi-faculty university, which can grant Bachelor Academic Degree and Master Academic Degree.

The University was founded in May 2003, approved by Ministry of Education and combined from former three provincial-administrated institutions of higher learning in Zhangjiakou: Zhang jiakou Medical College(ZJKMC), Zhangjiakou Teacher’s College(ZJKTC), Zhangjiakou Advanced Postsecondary Agronomy School(ZJKAPAS). It’s only multi-faculty university in the north of Hebei Province.　　

The main courses of the university focus on full-time undergraduate education together with postgraduate, postsecondary and adult education. At present, all the registered students are 31,000.　　

Up to now, the university has educated more than 54,000 students for the nation and more then one hundred oversea students for 29 countries.

The university boasts ten colleges, they are: Medical Technology College, Medical College, the first Clinical Medicine College, the Second Clinical Medicine College, Literature College, Science College, Agronomy and Horticulture College, Veterinary Medicine College, Foreign Language College and Adult Education College. And also three teaching departments, two scientific research center as well as eight affiliated teaching departments exist in the university.　　

The university posses a strong teaching force with 2900 on staff. It owns equipment for teaching and scientific research valued $ 13 million, books 150millon volumes in the library, as well as two affiliated hospitals and two non affiliated hospitals with 3000 patient beds. The first affiliated hospital, situated at the intersection of Hebei Province, Shanxi Province, Beijing and Inner Mongolia, is the first-class hospital with excellent environment and advanced infrastructure and equipment.　　

The existing academic areas of the university cover ten academic classifications, which are medicine, agronomy, literature, pedagogy, law, management science, history, economics, science and engineering, belonging to 76 academic areas of undergraduate and postsecondary specialized schooling. The clinical medicine is a traditional and specialized academic area, and while medical laboratory test and medical information management and information system were first set up among the universities in Huabei District, so did the forensic medicine among the universities in Hebei province.　　　

Pathology and pathophysiology, human anatomy, histology and embryology, pharmacology, aetiology, crop cultivation and plowing, TCL internal medicine, preventive veterinary, ancient Chinese literature and basic mathematics are key academic areas in the university. Among them, we can grant Master’s degree in pathophysiology, human anatomy, histology and embryology, pharmacology, microbiology and immunology.　　

Pathophysiology and experimental diagnostics are two provincial elite courses. Pathophysiological division of the university takes the national lead in conducting lymphatic micro-circulation investigation in vivo, of which physiological and pathological investigation in lymphatic micro-circulation is characteristic and advantageous in Hebei province, with its research achievements being internationally advanced and getting provicial awards many times.　　

The staff of the university actively investigate and study the teaching methods of improving students’ ability of blazing new trails and raising their quality, and have been receiving better result. According to the talents’ education requirements of Broadening the Knowledge, Enforcing the Basic Knowledge, Improving the Ability, Raising the Quality, the courses teaching plan has been revised, the ratio between the compulsory courses and elective courses has been adjusted and the content of quality education has been increased, so the structure of the courses has been modified. In the university, the university elite courses and provincial elite courses have been constructed. After necessary investment and implement of the policy, not only were twenty-five courses elected the university elite courses, but also the quality of teaching staff has been improving. Experimental diagnostics and pathophysiology are two provincial elite courses.　　

At present, the university possesses eleven research institutions, which are pharmaceuticals research institution, lymph microcirculation and serious illness research institution, aetiology and immunology research institution, psychiatry and psychology research institution, medical imaging institution, food-science research institution, animal husbandry research institution, economy research institution, culture resource and property research institution, applied chemistry research institution, art study and designing research institution. All the institutions plays important role in the social development.　　

The university possesses a strong teaching force, with mentors of graduates at core and professors and associate professors as back bone. The university owns 150 professors and 450 associate professors, while engaging more than 80 famous scholars from home and abroad as honorable professors or part-time professors. Among teachers on staff, 30 persons are provincial-managed excellent experts, government-subsidized experts, or middle-aged or young experts with prominent achievements. Professor Zhangjing, the only winner of the First National University and College Excellent Teaching Prize, was elected outstanding contributing expert in Zhangjiakou, and Niu Chunyuand Zhang Danshen were elected provincial excellent talents.