Beihua University is the largest key comprehensive university in Jilin Province. It was approved by the Ministry of Education in 1999 and was formed by the merger of the former Jilin Normal College, Jilin Medical College, Jilin Forest College and Jilin Electrification College. The school is located in Jilin City, Jilin Province.

The school has three campuses: East, South, and North, and an affiliated hospital. It covers an area of 2.93 million square meters (including teaching and experimental bases) and a building area of ​​728,800 square meters. The total value of teaching and scientific research equipment is 470 million yuan, and the collection of books is 3.627 million. There are 24 colleges and 1 engineering training center. At present, there are 26,926 full-time students, including 2010 graduate students, 24,196 undergraduates, 612 overseas students, and 11,487 continuing education students.

The school currently has 2,550 faculty members ; it shares 4 academicians from the two academicians, 153 senior experts outside the school as part-time or visiting professors, has 32 recipients of special government allowances from the State Council, and 1 leader in the "Ten Thousands Program" project. 1 national-level candidate (one level) for the New Century Multi-Million Talent Project, 1 leader of the National High-level Talent Special Support Program, 3 outstanding talents of the New Century from the Ministry of Education, 5 members of the Higher Education Teaching Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education; There are more than 100 high-level talents, including Changbai Mountain scholars, provincial senior experts, provincial top-notch innovative talents, and young and middle-aged professional and technical talents with outstanding contributions.

The school currently has 84 undergraduate majors , 17 first-level master's degree authorization points, 4 second-level master's degree authorization points, covering 10 disciplines, 13 master's degree categories (involving 36 professional fields), covering 11 Key disciplines; formed a key discipline jointly established by the Jilin Provincial Government and the National Forestry and Grassland Bureau, 2 key disciplines of the province, 7 key disciplines of the province, 11 high-level disciplines with provincial characteristics, 6 national levels Characteristic majors, 13 provincial-level specialty majors, 9 provincial-level brand majors, 11 provincial-level specialty high-level majors, and 12 provincial-level first-rate majors are subject-leading professional systems. The school has 51 national and provincial research platforms, 1 academician workstation, and 16 provincial innovation teams. In the past five years, it has undertaken 68 national scientific research projects.

In the long-term school running practice, the school has formed a "one-diversity, innovative and practical" talent training model. The school has established a support system for practice teaching bases with more than 20 national and provincial teaching platforms, including national experimental teaching demonstration centers and national college off-campus practice education bases, and has carried out fruitful college students' innovation, entrepreneurship, and practice education activities. It has won a series of brands such as Challenge Cup, Dragon Boat Race, Electronic Competition, Mechanical Innovation Design Competition, etc., and has been awarded the "National College Huang Danian Teacher Team" and the National Teaching Achievement Second Prize.

The school has established cooperative relations with 65 colleges or educational institutions in 20 countries and regions, carried out various forms of cooperative training of undergraduates and graduate students, and has studied nearly 800 people abroad in the past three years. Develop Chinese-foreign cooperative education programs with three universities in the UK, Finland and the United States, and jointly build a Confucius Institute with Gangwon University in South Korea. The school is the second batch of national demonstration bases for studying in China, the Chinese government scholarships for foreign students in China, the Confucius Institute scholarships for foreign students in China, the clinical medicine (English-taught) undergraduate education qualifications for foreign students in China. Advanced collective education for foreign students in China.

The school vigorously develops adult and continuing education, and has formed a multi-form, multi-level, multi-specification, and multi-channel school running model for adult higher education, continuing education, self-study examinations, and vocational skills training. In the past three years, a total of 12,000 adult college graduates have been trained , achieving a coordinated and healthy development of school scale, quality and efficiency.

The school is the fourth national civilized unit, national college student cultural quality education base, national university English reform demonstration school, national language committee language application training base, the country's first batch of outstanding doctors and outstanding agricultural and forestry talents training program reform pilot universities, China and Russia The first batch of affiliated schools of the Medical University Alliance, the National University Student Innovation Experimental Project School, the National University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program Project School, the National University Advanced Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program Implementation Advanced Unit, National Employment Experience for Universities Graduates, and National Universities Practice education and innovation and entrepreneurship base. The school is also an excellent base for popularizing social sciences in Jilin Province, a model college for deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education in Jilin Province, a high-level talent innovation and entrepreneurship base in Jilin Province, a "double innovation" demonstration base in Jilin Province, and a mental health education and training base for college students in Jilin Province.

At present, the teachers and students of the whole school are following the school motto of “Chongde Shangxue, Self-reliance”, and the development philosophy of “People First, Development First, Serving Jilin, and Strong North China”. Reform, speed up the construction of connotation, and make unremitting efforts to build Beihua University into a high-level applied research-oriented provincial comprehensive university.