东北石油大学是一所以工学为主，工、理、管、文、经、法、教育学多学科协调发展的全国重点院校，是中华人民共和国教育部首批公布具有招收来华留学生资质院校，黑龙江省重点建设的高水平大学。东北石油大学主校区坐落于黑龙江省大庆市,在河北省秦皇岛市建有分校区。

大庆市是全国文明城市、中国魅力之城。大庆市环境优美、交通便利，素有“绿色油化之都、天然百湖之城、北国温泉之乡”之称。大庆市是中国第一大油田、世界十大油田之一大庆油田所在地，是一座以石油、石化为支柱产业的著名工业城市。

学校建于1960年，现有教职工2216人，全日制在校生23025人。设有64个本科专业，其中，8个国家级特色专业建设点，1个国家级综合改革试点专业，19个省级重点专业。4个博士后科研流动站，1个博士后科研工作站；21个博士学位点，89个硕士学位点；具有工商管理（MBA）、社会工作、会计、工程4个类别硕士专业学位授予权。工程学2016年进入世界ESI前1%。

学校占地169.14万平方米，其中位于河北省秦皇岛市的分校校区占地33.30万平方米。教学科研仪器设备总值超过5亿元。建有万兆级校园网，图书馆藏图书255.05万册。建有国家级大学科技园。

学校与德国克劳斯塔尔工业大学、美国密苏里科技大学、新墨西哥矿业技术学院、加拿大卡尔加里大学、澳大利亚新南威尔士大学、俄罗斯秋明工业大学、韩国江原大学、罗马尼亚普罗耶斯蒂石油天然气大学等30余所国际高校在师资培养、学术交流、教学改革、科研协作等方面开展了富有成效的合作。

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, 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.