North University of China (NUC) was founded in 1941, formerly known as Taihang Industrial School, Taiyuan Institute of Machinery, North China Institute of Technology, and had the present name since June 2004.

NUC is located in Taiyuan, a historic and cultural city of over 2,500 years old and the capital of Shanxi Province Shanxi Province.

NUC consists of 19 schools, offering 24 PhD programs, 65 Master programs and 85 Bachelor programs in engineering, science, liberal arts, economics, management, law, art and education, among which engineering, material science and chemistry rank among the top 1% in Essential Science Indicators (ESI) world-wide..

NUC has 2,727 staff members working at NUC, including 8 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 832 professors and associate professors. Full time students enrollment stands at nearly 390,000, including over 4,000 PhD and Master Candidates, and 200 international students. NUC graduates are highly acclaimed by both employers and society at large.

NUC houses State, Provincial, or Ministerial key laboratories, research bases and centers, and NUC National University Science Park. The fund for scientific research and technological development has reached 4 billion Yuan RMB in the last decade. NUC has achieved tremendous accomplishments in a great number of research projects, some of which have won national and provincial awards.

NUC is pursuing an open and international strategy and is endeavoring to seize every possible opportunity to obtain developments. Now established as the largest educational institution in Shanxi Province, North University of China, ever striving for excellence in both teaching and scientific research, is aiming to be nation-oriented and world-oriented.