Northeast Electric Power University

Jilin City, China Mainland

Northeast Electric Power University (东北电力大学) is located in the beautiful northern China in Jilin City, Jilin Province. The university is a key university in Jilin Province. It was founded in 1949 and was the first electric engineering university founded by the Communist Party of China. It was named Jilin Electric Power College in 1958 and then renamed Northeast Electric Power College in 1978. Originally affiliated to the Ministry of Electric Power and the State Power Corporation, since 2000, it has implemented a management model of “central and local co-construction, mainly local management”. In 2005, the school was renamed Northeast Electric Power University. In 2012, the university was selected as one of the key national universities.

Northeast Electric Power University has 14 colleges and 50 undergraduate majors, covering 8 disciplines including engineering, science, management, literature, law, economics, education, and art. The school is an authorized unit of doctorate degree. It has three doctoral degree authorized first-level disciplines in electrical engineering, power engineering and engineering thermophysics, control science and engineering, and two post-doctoral mobile stations. Degree-authorized first-level disciplines, covering 58 master’s-authorized second-level disciplines, and 9 master’s degree-authorized professional categories; possess 9 distinctive high-level disciplines in Jilin Province, including 4 first-class disciplines, 4 advantageous and characteristic disciplines, and emerging interdisciplinary disciplines One. The school currently has more than 20,000 full-time students.