Founded in 1906,Beihua University is a comprehensive university. It is evaluated as an excellent institution by the Ministry of Education, and the demonstration base for foreign students come to learn in China. The University has 80 specialties for undergraduates and 116 for master degree , containing Economics, Law, Pedagogy, Literature, History, New-Confucianism, Engineering, Agronomy, Medicine, Management, and so on.

Since 1984, Beihua University began to accept foreign students. It is one of the universities who carry out foreign students training early. Beihua University is approved to accept Chinese government allowance, Jilin province government allowance, and Confucius Scholarship for foreign students. It is the foreign study destined university especially for the students of clinic medicine major (which deliver lessons in English ). Over 700 international students from more than 60 countries and regions have come to the university for further study.