Founded in 1984 and approved by the Ministry of Education, the Yellow River Institute of Science and Technology, located in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, is an undergraduate university with the coordinated development of applied disciplines and multiple disciplines

Founded in 1984 and headquartered in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, the Yellow River Institute of Science and Technology is a private undergraduate university approved by the Ministry of Education. In 1994, it was the first to be approved by the State Education Commission to implement junior college education, and in 2000, it was the first to be approved by the Ministry of Education to implement undergraduate education. In 2004, it obtained the right to confer bachelor's degrees; In 2008, it passed the evaluation of undergraduate teaching level in ordinary colleges and universities of the Ministry of Education; In 2013, it was approved by the Ministry of Education as the first batch of "Pilot Strategic Research Units for the Reform of Universities of Applied Sciences" in China, and became the first batch of members of the China Alliance of Universities of Applied Sciences and the first batch of pilot universities for transformation and development in Henan Province. In 2014, the school won the second prize of the National Teaching Achievement Award of Higher Education. In 2015, the "Yellow River Maker Space" was recognized by the Ministry of Science and Technology as the first batch of maker spaces in China, and the school was approved as "Henan College Student Entrepreneurship Demonstration Base" and "Henan Province's First Batch of Demonstration Applied Technology Undergraduate Colleges". In 2016, the school was listed in the first batch of "Top 50 Innovation and Entrepreneurship in National Universities", the University Science and Technology Park was recognized as a national science and technology business incubator, and the school was approved as a "Henan Province Entrepreneurship Incubation Demonstration Base" and "Henan Province Advanced Unit for Employment and Entrepreneurship of Ordinary College and Secondary School Graduates". The history of the school's development is a history of innovation and entrepreneurship that dares to be the first in the world, which has been written into teaching cases by the University of Virginia Business School twice, and has been reported by famous Chinese and foreign media such as "People's Daily" and "Washington Post" many times.

The Yellow River Institute of Science and Technology has two campuses in Zhengzhou City and one campus in Jiyuan City, covering an area of more than 2,600 acres and a building area of more than 800,000 square meters. The college has 16 secondary colleges, including the School of Commerce, the School of Medicine, and the School of Applied Technology. There are nine disciplines such as engineering, science, literature, medicine, and management; It offers 62 undergraduate majors such as electronic information engineering, clinical medicine, and business administration, and 33 junior college majors such as numerical control technology and nursing. Among them, three disciplines, namely regional economics, communication and information systems, machinery manufacturing and automation, are the key disciplines of Henan Province; Six majors, including Nursing, Mechanical Design and Manufacturing and Automation, Electronic Information Engineering, Music Performance, Computer Science and Technology, and Material Forming and Control Engineering, are characteristic majors in Henan Province. Four majors, including communication engineering, material forming and control, economics and nursing, are private education brand majors in Henan Province; There are 11 research institutes, including the Institute of Nano Functional Materials and the Institute of Private Education; There are 45 high-level teaching and research platforms, such as the National Vocational Skills Appraisal Station, the National College Students' Off-campus Practical Education Base, the Henan Provincial Campus Football Leading Group Office, the Henan Provincial Postdoctoral R&D Base, the Engineering Technology Research Center, Key Disciplines, Characteristic Majors, and Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center. At present, there are more than 28,000 full-time students, nearly 50% of teachers with senior professional titles, and 80% of young teachers have postgraduate degrees. There are more than 630 "double-teacher" teachers such as engineers and teachers, lawyers and teachers, accountants and teachers, and more than 150 honorary teachers such as academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, experts enjoying special government allowances of the State Council, outstanding talents of the new century of the Ministry of Education, winners of national teaching achievement awards, national and provincial famous teachers, and provincial academic and technical leaders. There are 48 high-level teaching and research platforms, such as the National Vocational Skills Appraisal Station, the National College Students' Off-campus Practical Education Base, the National Professional Comprehensive Reform Pilot, the Henan Academician Workstation, the Postdoctoral R&D Base, the Engineering Technology Research Center, and the Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center. There are 110 experimental (training) rooms for various subjects, 288 experimental sub-rooms, 15 on-campus training bases, and 316 off-campus training bases; The value of teaching and scientific research instruments and equipment is 240 million yuan, and the library has a collection of 2.94 million books.

Over the past 32 years, the school has adhered to the tenet of "sharing worries for the country, relieving worries for the people, and serving socialist modernization", adhered to the socialist direction of running a school, put education first, and put moral education first, and created an ideological and political work model of "taking party building as the core and comprehensively strengthening ideological and political work"; With the goal of cultivating front-line innovative talents, we have actively deepened the reform of education and teaching, built a talent training model of "combining undergraduate education and vocational skills training", and cultivated more than 140,000 high-quality applied talents who can "go, retain, use and do well" for the country. Focusing on innovation and entrepreneurship, the school has extensively carried out in-depth cooperation between schools and enterprises and school administration, formed a distinctive innovation and entrepreneurship education model combining production, education and research, built a diversified innovation and entrepreneurship service platform, built a three-dimensional innovation and entrepreneurship support system, created a strong innovation and entrepreneurship cultural atmosphere, and promoted the successful development of the school's innovation and entrepreneurship work. The college has won many honorary titles such as "National Graduate Employment Typical Experience University", "National Advanced Unit of Private Universities", "National Advanced Unit of Integrity and Self-discipline", "Huang Yanpei Excellent School", "National 38 Red Flag Collective", "National May Fourth Red Flag Youth League Committee", "National Excellent Higher Education Research Institution", "Provincial Civilized Unit", "Provincial Grassroots Party Organization", "Henan Province Advanced Unit for Employment and Entrepreneurship of Ordinary College and Secondary School Graduates", etc.