North China Electric Power University (NCEPU), founded in 1958 and designated by the State Council as a key university in China in 1978, is affiliated with the Ministry of Education and officially listed as one of the "211 Project" universities. NCEPU is composed of two respective campuses in Beijing and in Baoding, with its main campus in Beijing.The Baoding campus covers an area of 40 hectares and Beijing campus covers an area of 53.33 hectares. NCEPU holds school buildings of 800,000 square metersandfixed assets of 2.1 billion yuan, including 0.3 billion yuan allocated to scientific and teaching facilities. The university library covers a collection of 1.5 million books. NCEPU possesses a high-quality teaching staff with a total number of 1,600 professional teachers, including 287 professors, 490 associate professors, and four academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Being open to students from all over China, the university has, at present, more than 35,000 full-time students, including 20,002 undergraduates and 6,276 post-graduates. For many years, NCEPU has enjoyed the graduates' employment rate of over 96%.

    NCEPU has greatly improved its academic programs and a complete educational system for bachelor's, master's and Ph.D. students has been firmly established. Currently, NCEPU maintains 54 bachelor's programs, 52 master's programs, 20 Ph.D. programs, 3 first-level disciplines authorized to confer Ph. D. degrees, 2 mobile stations of post-doctoral scientific research, 1 post-doctoral project workstation, 2 key disciplines at the national level, 13 key disciplines at the provincial and ministerial level, 10 key laboratories at the provincial and ministerial level, 1 research center for Beijing energy development, and some professional degree programs including Master's Program of Business Administration and Master's Program of Applied Engineering.����