In 1975, it was renamed Daqing Petroleum Institute (Chinese: 大庆石油学院; pinyin: Dàqìng Shíyóu Xuéyuàn).
In October 1978, the institute was accredited by the State Council of the People's Republic of China, being one of 88 national key universities.
Since February 2000, the institute has been under the jurisdiction of central and provincial governments, and has been mainly administered by Heilongjiang Province.
The school has 1 academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and 3 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering; 1 member of the Academic Evaluation Committee of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council; 6 members of the Steering Committee of the Higher Education Department of the Ministry of Education; 26 experts enjoying special allowances from the State Council; "3 winners, 1 winner from the first batch of "Young Talent Support Program" of the Central Organization Department, "1 winner from the National Excellent Youth Fund", 1 winner from the Heliang Heli Science and Technology Progress Award, "Longjiang Scholar" "17 people, 2 provincial-level outstanding experts, 25 academic leaders and reserve leaders in Heilongjiang Province; the school has national model teachers, national excellent teachers, Heilongjiang Province teaching teachers, Heilongjiang Province model teachers, and 18 outstanding teachers in Heilongjiang Province.
There is a modern library with a single building area of 45,000 square meters, with a collection of 2.22 million books and 19 types of data resources.
In terms of international cooperation, the school has established inter-school relations with many well-known universities in more than 20 countries including Canada, the United States, Japan, Australia, Russia, the United Kingdom, and South Korea, and signed academic exchange agreements.