Jiamusi University is located in Jiamusi, a charming city in Heilongjiang Province of China. The university was founded in 1947, and after 60 years of development and construction, it has found its way into the list of key universities to receive special support from Heilongjiang Government. The University has covered post-graduate education, general higher education, higher vocational and technical education and adult education (continuing education). In 2009, it started its doctorate degree program.

The university, covering an area of 1.5 million square meters with the construction area of 950,000 square meters, has five school districts and a Hi-Tech Park, twenty-six colleges, a department directly under the university and sixty-nine research institutes. The academic subjects and disciplines of the university include ten disciplines involving arts, science, law, engineering, medicine, economics, education, history, management and agriculture. It has seventy-six undergraduate programs and thirty-four master's degree programs. Among them, there is one state-level special subject, one demonstratively experimental subject of vocation and profession at the national level, eight key province-level subjects, three provincial key laboratories, three provincial experiment centers by demonstration, and nine provincial quality courses.