Shandong University of Science and Technology (SDUST), founded in 1951, offers multidisciplinary education in engineering, sciences, management, literature, law, economics and education with unique engineering characteristics. It is one of the five featured key construction universities of Shandong Province for cultivating personnel with practical abilities. The University now has three campuses located respectively in Qingdao, Tai’an and Jinan, covering a total area of 243 hectares with a floor space of 1.42 million square meters. The University’s total assets value 1.795 billion yuan RMB (teaching instruments and equipment 0.469 billion yuan RMB).
The University comprises 19 academic colleges, nine directly-affiliated departments, four academies and one independent college. There are nine centers for post-doctoral studies, eight first-tier disciplines authorized to confer doctoral degrees with 43 doctoral programs; 24 first-tier disciplines to confer master’s degrees with 127 master’s programs; six master’s degree domains including 19 professional master’s degree authorization, and 78 undergraduate programs.The University boasts one state key discipline (under construction), one state key lab base co-founded by Shandong Province and the Ministry of Education, one state-local joint engineering center and 61 ministerial/provincial key disciplines (labs, engineering centers) including one key laboratory and one engineering research center invested by the Ministry of Education, three key disciplines, four key laboratories, two engineering labs and three engineering/technology research centers designated by Qingdao City.
Also attached to the University are one business center authorized by the National Manufacturing Informationization Training Center, one foreign language training center under the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs, the Shandong-Russia Center of Sci-Tech Cooperation, and Qingdao Manufacturing Informationization Personnel Cultivation Base. The Russian Academy of Natural Sciences set up a China Science Center at SDUST, the only one in China.
