Northeast Petroleum University is one of China’s National Key Universities. The university is a dedicated center of engineering studies and research, which also offers courses in many other disciplines including science, business administration, literature, law, and education. NEPU was in the first batch of universities that qualified the Educational Department of the People’s Republic of China’s requirements to offer admissions to international students. It’s high level Key University of Heilongjiang. Northeast Petroleum University’s main campus located in Daqing, Heilongjiang province, along with its branch campus located in Qinhuangdao, Hebei province.

Daqing is the city of national civilization and the charm of China. Daqing city has a beautiful environment and convenient transportation. It is known as 'the green oil capital, the natural hundreds of Lakes city, the hometown of hot springs in north China'. Daqing is the location of the largest oil field in China and the Daqing oilfield, one of the ten largest oil fields in the world. It is a famous industrial city with petroleum and petrochemical industry as its pillar industry.

Founded in 1960, NEPU now has 2216 members of staff and 23,025 full-time students. It has 64 undergraduate disciplines, of which 8 are national level featured disciplines, 1 national level comprehensive reform trial discipline, and 19 provincial level disciplines. It has 4 post-doctoral research stations, 1 post-doctoral research workshop; 21 disciplines granting doctoral degrees, and 89 disciplines granting master degrees; 4 disciplines granting professional master degrees in business administration (MBA), social work, accounting, and engineering. In 2016, the engineering course succeeded in entering the top 1% of university ESI scores.

NEPU covers an area of 1,691,400 square meters, of which 333,000 square meters are part of our Qinhuangdao branch campus. The total value of educational and scientific equipment is over 500 million RMB. It owns a 10 GB campus network, a library with over 2,550,500 books, and a national level university science and research center.

In the fields of teacher training, academic exchange, educational reform, and research cooperation, NEPU has established fruitful cooperation with more than 30 universities overseas, including Technical University of Clausthal in Germany, American Missouri University of Science and Technology, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, University of Calgary in Canada, Waseda University in Japan, University of New South Wales in Australia, Russian Kuban State Technological University, Tyumen Institute of Technology, Korean Kangwon National University, and Oil & Gas University of Ploiești in Romania.

Daqing city has a convenient transportation network and is accessible by road, rail or air. The city has its own airport with flights to major cities in China, and it only takes 1 hour and 45 minutes to fly to Beijing. Also, Daqing’s rail network has been upgraded and connected to China’s vast high speed rail network allowing for faster and more convenient travel to anywhere in the country than ever before. Inside the city traffic is smooth and an affordable bus and taxi service ensure that getting around is never a problem.