The predecessor of Hebei University of Technology is called the Beiyang technology school established in 1903, which is the earliest university in China to cultivate industrial talents, and it founded the earliest university run factory in China. The University ranked among the first batch of key universities under the national "Project 211" in 1996. In 2014, it was jointly built by Hebei Province, Tianjin and the Ministry of education. In 2017, it was selected as a national "double first-class" University. In recent years, three disciplines - materials science, chemistry and engineering - have been ranked in the top 1% of the global ESI rankings and have been moving forward. In 2020, the university was awarded the "National Civilised Campus".

The university has 20 teaching institutions and 64 undergraduate majors, including 37 national first-class undergraduate major construction, covering seven disciplines of engineering, science, economics, management, arts, law and fine arts. It has 1 nation "world-class discipline", 2 national key disciplines, 3 World-class Discipline Construction Projects in Hebei Province, 4 National-class Discipline Construction Projects in Hebei Province, 7 key disciplines in Tianjin. It has 11 post-doctoral research stations, 11 first-level doctoral degree authorization, 26 first-level master's degree authorization, 17 professional degree categories and 28 professional degree master's authorization fields. There are more than 23,000 full-time undergraduate students and 9,000 postgraduate students.

The university vigorously implements the project of strengthening the university with talents and constantly improves the mechanism of introducing and training high-level talents. The university has more than 2,800 teaching staff, including more than 1,800 full-time teachers.

In recent years, around the major national strategic needs of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei synergistic development and regional industrial transformation and upgrading development needs, the university relies on the platform jointly built by province and municipality and ministries, establish the "landing high" scientific research ideas, and gather regional resources. The university has built 54 national and provincial research platforms, including provincial and ministerial state key laboratories, national engineering technology research centres and national joint local engineering laboratories. The university has been awarded the second prize of the National Natural Science Award, the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, the Hou Debang Chemical Science and Technology Achievement Award and the Hebei Provincial Science and Technology Outstanding Contribution Award. During the 13th Five-Year Plan period, the university hosted 21 major national key projects and more than 400 national natural science funds projects, granted more than 2,700 patents, and was approved as one of the first national pilot universities for intellectual property rights, ranking 70th among the top 100 universities in China for patents. The first "Yuanguang" small satellite was successfully flown by the Long March 8 launch vehicle and operated in orbit. The high-performance robot haptic sensing intelligence system was selected as one of the pioneering technologies in the "Science and Technology China" list in 2020. The university has spent 300 million yuan on science and technology annually, and more than 100 scientific research achievements have won national and provincial awards, making it the most awarded university in Hebei Province for outstanding contributions to science and technology, and one of the top ten outstanding invention and creation units in Hebei Province.

The university focuses on international exchange and cooperation, and has formed a new pattern of international cooperation in all aspects, multiple levels and broad fields. At present, the university has signed cooperation agreements with more than 60 foreign universities, covering all levels from undergraduate to doctoral in cooperation training. The university has also established the “Finland Campus” with LUT University in Lappeenranta, Finland, and the “Arizona College of Technology” with the world-renowned University of Arizona, USA. Currently, there are nearly 1,000 students in Sino-foreign cooperative programmes and more than 290 international students at HEBUT.

At present, the joint construction of the provincial and municipal and ministries has built a new development platform for the university, and the national "double first-class" construction has enabled the university to enter a "new era" and embark on a new journey. The university has made remarkable achievements in various aspects such as discipline construction, talent training, faculty building, teaching and research. Under the guidance of Xi Jinping's thought of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, Hebei University of Technology is seizing the opportunities and riding on the momentum, firmly implementing the fundamental task of establishing moral education, continuously deepening the comprehensive reform of the university, vigorously strengthening the construction of high-level talents, and striving to enhance the capacity and level of service for the collaborative development of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei, contributing the wisdom and strength of Hebei University of Technology to speed up the construction of a modern economic and beautiful Hebei Province.