Qingdao University is a key comprehensive university in Shandong Province, a university jointly built by Shandong Province and Qingdao City,ahigh level universityof Shandong Province, striving to becomeone of the"first-class" universities, with a history dating back to 1909 when it was founded as the Qingdao Special College of Higher Education. In 2021, the university was ranked among the top four universities in the world by ARWU, US News, QS Asia and Times Higher Education (THE), achieving a historic breakthrough in the ranking of the four universities in the world, including being ranked among the top 500 universities in the world by ARWU for three consecutive years.
The university has three campuses: Fushan Campus, Jinjialing Campus and Songshan Campus, covering an area of 2,655 mu. There are 34 colleges and medical departments, with 79 undergraduate majors covering 10 disciplines. There are 10 post-doctoral stations, 14 first-degree doctoral programs and 3 types of doctoral degrees,41 first-degree master's programs and 28 types of master's degrees. The university has more than 42,000 full-time students and 2,600 full-time teachers.
The university has built a national base for cultural quality education of college students, a base for Chinese language education, a national intellectual property information service center for colleges and universities, a model university for innovation and entrepreneurship education reform of the Ministry of Education, a model university for teacher assessment and evaluation reform of the Ministry of Education, and a model base for studying in China of the Ministry of Education.
The university has 4 national experimental teaching demonstration centers, 1 clinical teaching training demonstration center, 3 national experimental zones for innovation of talent training mode, 32 national first-class professional construction points, 7 national specialties, 14 national high-quality courses, 6 national first-class courses, 6 national teaching achievement awards, 1 national key laboratory built by the provincial ministry, 1 provincial collaborative innovation center, 1 national There are 1 national key laboratory, 1 provincial and ministerial collaborative innovation center, 1 national joint engineering research center, 1 national model international science and technology cooperation base, 1 discipline innovation intelligence base of higher education institutions, 1 national international joint research center, and 38 provincial and ministerial key laboratories, engineering and technology research centers, collaborative innovation centers and humanities and social science research bases.
The university adheres to the strategy of internationalization and has established friendly exchange and cooperation with more than 180 institutions in nearly 30 countries and regions, and has established more than 200 projects for teacher-student exchange, joint training and cooperative research. The university has established 2 Confucius Institutes (classrooms) in foreign countries. There are 96 countries of origin for international students.
As the main body of the SCO Economic and TradeInstitution, the university plays the role of organization and coordination around "personnel training, talentcultivating, think tank construction, scientific and technological cooperation", on the one hand, it closely connects with provinces, cities and the SCO demonstration zone, and actively carries out the work related to the SCO Economic and TradeInstitutiontogether with the governing units,actively carryingout relevant work of the SCO Economic and TradeInstitutionby leveraging their respective advantages and characteristics.On the other hand, it plays the role of organization and guidance, and mobilizes its second-level colleges to actively participate in the construction of SCO Economic and TradeInstitutionthrough "one college, one policy" or "one college, multiple policies" in conjunction with discipline construction. As of June 2022, the second-level colleges have proposed 81 related construction tasks (projects).
