2. About Qingdao University
• Qingdao University located in Qingdao, China was founded in 1901 and is the second national university established in the country,
created soon after Jingshi University (the Metropolitan University).
• Qingdao University consists of 26 schools/colleges and a graduate school. Courses are offered in 11 main academic disciplines:
philosophy, economics, law, literature, history, natural sciences, engineering, management, medicine, education, and military.
There are 104 undergraduate degree programs, 209 masters degree programs, 127 doctoral degree programs, and 15 post-
doctorate mobile stations. In addition, there are 7 professional master's degree programs in law, business management,
engineering, clinical medicine, public health, dentistry and public administration respectively.
• Qingdao University has about 95,000 students of which 40,978 are full time students, 10,755 are postgraduate students, and over
1,000 are international students. Since 1980, Qingdao University has received over 10,000 students from more than 60 countries.
The university also has a group of reputed scholars known at home and abroad, of which 900 are professors. There are 23
academicians (including adjunct academicians) who are members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy
of Engineering.
Now the wheel of history has steered into the 21st century and the new millennium. A new era of reform and development has
begun. QU also faces unprecedented new challenges and opportunities.
We're determined to seize the opportunities and meet the challenge. To do this, QU must insist her aim of development: “to be
open-minded, internationalized and high-graded”, must maintain its focus on teaching and research, on development, must
strengthen international contacts to become a bridge for cultural, scientific and technological exchanges between the east and the
west of the world.
We are striving to do all of these much harder than before, in order to make QU to be a domestically advanced, internationally
renowned university.
