Introduction

North China Electric Power University (NCEPU), founded in 1958, is one of the “Project 211” in Superior Discipline Innovation Platform universities and one of the “Double-First Class” initiative universities. As one of the key universities in China under the direct jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education, NCEPU is jointly constructed by the Ministry of Education and the University Directorate, which is composed of seven super-large power enterprises including State Grid Corporation of China. NCEPU, under an integrated administration, consists of two campuses in Beijing an in Baoding respectively, with the Beijing Campus as its main campus.

Academic Reputation

NCEPU has undertaken the historical mission to develop high-quality talents for the national energy and power industry and promote science and technology progress for more than half a century. Upon the entry of the new century, the university has implemented the guideline to base the university on disciplinary programs, make use of talents to enhance the university, depending on scientific research to promote the university and achieve characteristic development. Besides, it has grasped the opportunity, accelerated development, and realized leap development.

NCEPU has always taken talent development as its basic task, so it has formed the special talents development featuring “to focus on a solid foundation, emphasize on practice, promote abilities and pursue innovation”, which makes the university become first universities to implement the Excellent Engineer Development Plan. There are five national excellent courses, two teams of national-level famous teachers, 11 national characteristic majors, three national experimental teaching demonstration centers, three national engineering practice education centers, one national virtual simulation experimental teaching center, and ten provincial experimental teachings centers in the university. Moreover, NCEPU has passed the assessment of undergraduate education and achieved the “Excellence” result.

Industry-university Collaboration

As Vice President Member of China Electricity Council, relying on the university council platform, NCEPU has constantly deepened the industry-university collaboration and reached strategic cooperation relations with about 30 large high-tech enterprises of domestic and overseas power, coal, telecommunication, equipment manufacturing industry to undertake important researches and development projects, constructing experimental centers, research and development centers,  postdoctoral workstations, and graduate workstations, and accelerate exploitation and industrialization of scientific and technological results. It has signed about 500 scientific projects with major scientific innovation enterprises per year, and successively obtained two titles of Special Contribution Unit of Demonstration Project for Ultra-high Voltage Alternating and Direct Current Experiment of State Grid Corporation of China. NCEPU has constructed the multilateral university-local cooperation platform, expanded cooperation channels, and finally, it develops strategic partnership relations with the local governments of Beijing, Hebei, Jiangsu, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Qinghai, and Shandong. On the new energy, smart gird, and other strategic emerging industries, the university deepens the communication and cooperation in scientific innovation, achievement transformation, and talent development so as to gain fruitful results in promoting regional scientific innovation and driving local economic development. NCEPU is an active participator in the promotion of interscholastic cooperation, and as the major sponsor, it has participated in establishing the Beijing High-Tech Universities Alliance consisting of 11 industry-based universities to share and complement advantageous resources and encourage interscholastic cooperative innovation.

Exciting Campus Life

NCEPU is more than a place of learning. NCEPU students enjoy a diversity of sporting and cultural activities and relax in an exciting and welcoming environment. There are more than 100 associations and clubs. Cultural activities including concerts, art performances, dance parties, and movies are held regularly, and sports events such as NCEPU Sports Festival, NCEPU Football League, NCEPU Basketball Tournament, and NCEPU Volleyball Match are held each year regardless of the sports events held by schools.

Promising Career Opportunity

With a broad understanding of expertise, a sound foundation of academic knowledge and a good command of various professional skills, NCEPU graduates will have a wide choice of careers in the mainstream electrical, electronic, energy industries, IT, other engineering and high-tech spheres as well as the fields of business, management, law, and other public sectors, to name but a few.

About International Education Institute

NCEPU formulated the new development strategy with the purpose of making NCEPU into a first-class higher education provider domestically, an academically influential higher education institution internationally, and a multi-disciplinary, research-oriented, and internationalized university. As one important component of NCEPU’s Strategy, the main concern of its internationalization is to introduce an advanced philosophy of running a university, outstanding teaching and learning system, up-to-date teaching and learning materials, and thus to upgrade her operational capacity and academic reputation, thus cultivating the first-class talents.

To implement the internationalization strategy, the International Education Institute (IEI) was established in 2001 to develop international collaboration. The main function of IEI is to admit international students, provide the Chinese language and the English language learning services, and collaborate with the UK, American, Canadian, French, and Australian partner universities in joint undergraduate programs and credit transfer programs, under which NCEPU students will study both in NCEPU and corresponding partner universities abroad. Up to now, we have enrolled nearly 800 international students studying for the Chinese language, the academic programs taught in English, and Chinese on a part-time and full-time basis.

IEI has now been a home for both international students who are going to study degree programs, the Chinese language, and the Chinese students who are going to study abroad. With a well-equipped and satisfying learning environment, comfortable living conditions, every student in IEI will certainly enjoy their study and life here.